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JEHOVAH'S 
FINISHED WORK 



"Declaring the End from the 
Beginning ; and from Ancient 
Times the Things that are not 
yet done." — Isaiah 46:10. 



"Known unto Jehovah are all 
His Works from the Beginning 
of the World." —Acts 15:18. 



Marvelous Things Which Have Been Kept 
Secret from the Foundation of the World 

"Into which things Angels earnestly 
desire to look." — 1 Peter 1:12. 



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Jehovah* s Finished Work. 3 

DIAGRAM OF JEHOVAH'S PLAN OF THE 
AGEvS, ACCORDING TO THE HOLY SCRIP- 
TURES, FOR THE CREATION OF 1,000 GEN- 
ERATIONS OF GODS, "MAN, MALE AND FE- 
MALE," AND "ALL THE HOSTS OF THEM"; 
"LIKE UNTO GOD — EVEN GOD." (Text m 
margin, Rom. 4:17.) Ps. 105:8; Rom. 8:20-21 ; Rev. 
21:5; Gen. 2:1. Through Christ and the glorified 
Church, the spiritual seed of Abraham. "Having 
made known unto us the mystery of His will, ac- 
cording to His good pleasure, which He purposed 
in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fulness 
of times ["The Ages to come" of Christ's Reign] 
He might gather together in one [universal family] 
all things in Christ, both which are in Heaven and 
which are in earth, even in Him." (Ephes. 1 :9~io 
and 2:7.) 

Adam to Flood. 

1,656 years. 

Adam to call of Abraham. Time in doubt. 



Adam to exodus of Israel. Time in doubt. 



Adam to 70 years' captivity of Israel. Time in 
doubt. 



Adam to birth of Christ. Time in doubt. 



Adam to end of Gospel Age, 1945. 
6,000 years. 



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Adam to end of Millennial Age. 

7,000 years. 

Adam to end of "Jehovah's Finished Work/' of 

1,000 generations of gods, "like unto God — 

even God." Unknown. 



Adam to beginning of "Age without end." Un- 
known. 



"To Him [Jehovah] be the Glory in the Church] 
and in Jesus Christ, to all the generations [1,000 
of the Age of the Ages. Amen." — Ephes. 3:21, Dia " 
glot. "Ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded 
world without end." — Isa. 45:17. "He hath remem- 
bered His covenant forever, the word which He com- 
manded to a thousand generations. The covenant He 
made with Abraham, and His oath unto Isaac; and 
confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, to 
Israel for an evei lasting covenant." — Ps. 105:8-10. 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 



APPEAR OF THE AUTHORS. 

"Hear, for I [we] will speak excellent things, 
and the opening of my lips shall be right things; 
for my mouth shall utter truth." (Prov. 8:6-7.) 
God's Word is truth. "These things belong to the 
wise." (Prov. 24:23.) "Wise" virgins, and them 
only. (Matt. 25.2.) "O taste and see that the 
Lord is good." (Ps. 34:8.) "I will utter things 
which have been kept secret from the foundation of 
the world." (Matt. 13:35.) "Hear my words, ye 
wise men, and give ear unto me, ye that have 
knowledge; for the ear tasteth words, as the palate 
tasteth food. Let us choose for us that which is 
right; let us know among ourselves that which is 
good." (Job 34:2-4.) "Many shall purify them- 
selves, and make themselves white, and be refined; 
but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the 
wicked shall understand; but they that are wise shall 
understand" (Daniel 12:10.) "He who testifieth 
these things saith, Yea, I come quickly. Amen. 
Come, Lord Jesus." (Rev. 22:20.) 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 



"But I would have you know that the head 
op every man (on the God plane] is Christ." — 
I Cor ii j. (Rom. 4:17 and 8:21.) 



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A. 

THE 

God Plane A 
the Church, > 
the Bride, the^ 
144, 000, the 

Lamb's wipe," "the 
pirst fruits unto god 
and the Lamb," are the 1 
first to be exalted to the 1 
God plane, before the re-^ 
mainder op humanity (Rev. 
14:1-4, 1 John 3:2; 2 Peter 1-4;' 
Phil 3:21; Heb.7.16.) 
r Adam is the head of every man on the^ 

r NATURAL PLANE. " HOWBElT, THAT IS NOT\ 

r first which is spiritual, but that which is\ 

'natural, then that which is spiritual." (iN 

cor. 15:46.) all the groaning creation wiij,\ 

finally be lifted up to the god plane. (rom.> 

4:17, 8:21, Rev 21*5, 1 Tim. 2.3-4.) Then Jeho-^ 

VAH'S WORK WILL BE FINISHED AS DECLARED FROM THE> 
BEGINNING (Isa 46.IO.) 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 




THE aREAT IMAGE . 



The Great Metallic Image o* Daniei, Two. 



8 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

ThE GREAT METALLIC IMAGE OF DANIEL 2:31 to 

46 symbolizes four world-wide Empires : Bab- 
ylon, Medo-Persia, Grecia, and Rome. 

Beginning 606 B. C, and spanning a cycle of 
2,520 years, ending in 1914, in a world-wide war. 
According to the Word of God, Babylon, the fourth 
universal monarchy, was to be divided into ten 
kingdoms, symbolized by the ten toes on the great 
metallic image. These ten kingdoms are all lo- 
cated in the Eastern Hemislphere, in Roman ter- 
ritory. 

"In the days of these kings shall the God of 
Heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be 
destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty thereof be left 
to another people. But it shall break in pieces 
and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand 
forever . ' ' — Daniel 2 144 . 

The time allotted for this kingdom of "the God 
of Heaven' ' to be "set up" is between 1914 A. D. 
and 1945 A. D., September 20th. At this latter 
date Christ and the glorified saints, the Bride of 
Christ, the 144,000, "the Lamb's wife," will take 
the kingdom and become its rulers. 



MAN IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. 
When man was first created, he was not created 
in the express image of God, but was created natural. 
But by re-generation through Jesus Christ, the 
second Adam, man is to be changed from the nat- 
ural to the spiritual, or created in the image and 
likeness of God. When Jesus Christ, the second 
Adam, was created, he was created natural, and 
remained so for thirty-three and one-half years; 
then at His resurrection He was changed to man 
in the image and likeness of God, the brightness 
of His Father's glory, the express image of His 
substance. Jesus Christ is the first and only man 
as yet created immortal in the image and likeness 
of God. Jesus Christ had two begettals and 
two births. His first begettal was by the Spirit of 
God in the womb of His mother, Mary, the vir- 
gin. His first birth was when He was born of 
the Virgin Mary, in Bethlehem of Judea. His sec- 
ond begettal or anointing was when He was bap- 
tized with the Holy Spirit, at Jordan, being about 
thirty years old. His second birth occurred at 
His resurrection, when He was born out of the 
death state or condition, with the power of an 
endless life, being then born of God, born ffrom 
above, as stated in John 3:3. He could then 
come and go as the wind, unperceived by hu- 
man eyes, unless He chose to reveal Himself, as 
in the case of His meeting with His disciples on 
the way to Emmaus. His Bride, the 144,000, the 



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wife of the Lamb, will have two begettals and two 
births also, will be changed and made immortal in 
the first or chief resurrection. By the power of 
God vested in Christ, the sfecond Adam, and the 
glorified Church, the second Eve, the whole race 
of mankind will finally be re-generated, created 
anew, made immortal, become gods, like unto God, 
as prophetically foretold in Genesis 1:31 and 2:4. 
The Divine plan and purpose of Jehovah, as relates 
to the whole race of mankind, is embraced in the 
above propositions, to be carried out through 
Christ and the glorified Church. It is the "mystery 
of Godliness"— God-likeness, which has been kept 
secret from the ages, but now revealed to us through 
the Scriptures of truth, given us by the holy prophets 
and apostles, who have preached these "glad tidings 
of great joy, which shall be to all people" both 
the living and the dead — with the Holy Spirit sent 
down from Heaven. 

The whole plan and purpose of Jehovah, as re- 
lates to man in the " image and likeness " of God, 
is given us in the first chapter of Genesis and ending 
with the sixth verse of the second chapter, which 
should never have been cut off from the first chapter. 



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NATURAL OR MORTAL MAN CONTRASTED 
WITH SPIRITUAL OR IMMORTAL MAN. 



The First Adam. 

The first Adam is 
sown a natural body, 
mortal, (i Cor. 15:45.) 

The first Adam was 
made of the dust of the 
ground, a natural or mor- 
tal man. (Gen. 2 vj ; Job 
4-I7-) 



The first Adam was a 
figure of Him that was 
to come. (Rom. 5:14.) 



The first Adam was a 
son of God, but not a 
begotten son. (Luke 
3:38.) 



The first man Adam 
was a creature made sub- 
ject to vanity, liable to 
temptation . (Gen .3:6; 
Rom. 8:20.) 



The Second Adam. 

It is raised a spiritual 
body, raised immortal. 
(1 Cor. 15:45.) 

The second Adam was 
made of the "seed" of 
the woman (Gen. 3:15), 
the "seed" of Abraham, 
the "seed" of David, the 
"seed" of the Virgin 
Mary. 

Jesus, the second Ad- 
am, was the One to come ; 
hence could not be older 
than His mother — was 
no angel. 

Jesus, the second Ad- 
am, was the only begot- 
ten Son of God (John 
1:14; Luke 1:35), made 
of a woman, made under 
the law (Gal. 4:4). 

The second Adam was 
a creature also, and made 
subject to vanity, tempt- 
ed in all points like as we 
are, suffered and died as 
we do. (Heb. 2:14-17- 
18.) "Besides, He (God) 



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The first Adam was 
made natural or mortal, 
tested and failed, blam- 
ing his failure to God, 
because of the woman 
God gave him. Adam 
hid his sin in his bosom. 
(Job. 31:38.) 

The first man Adam 
was made mortal, but 
not complete without his 
wife Eve, for the genera- 
tion of the race of man- 
kind. (Gen. 2:18.) 



The first Adam re- 
ceived his bride Eve, 
made of a rib, taken 
from his side. (Gen. 
2:22.) 



The first Adam was 
the head of the first wo- 



does not in any way take 
hold of angels, but He 
takes hold of the seed of 
Abraham." (Heb. 2:16.) 
Jesus, the second Ad- 
am, was made natural or 
mortal, tested and over- 
came, because He loved 
righteousness and hated 
iniquity. (John 16 133 ; 
Heb. 1:9.) 

The second man was 
made immortal at His 
resurrection, but will not 
be complete without the 
144,000, His Bride, the 
second Eve, the Lamb's 
wife, for the regenera- 
tion of the whole race. 
(Matt. 18 : 28; Rev. 
21 :22.) 

Jesus, the second Ad- 
am, is to receive His 
Bride, the glorified 
Church, by virtue of 
blood that flowed from 
His wounded side. ( 1 
John 5:6.) 

The second Adam, 
Jesus, is the head of the 



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man, Eve, and also of 
every man. ( 1 Cor. 

11:3.) 

The first Adam and 
Eve became one, and 
their name one, which 
was Adam and Eve — 
God. (Gen. 2:5.) 



The first Adam and 
Eve are the joint head 
of the whole human fam- 
ily, on the natural plane. 



"Yet to us there is 
but one God, the Father 
[the Creator], of Whom 
are all things [on the nat- 
ural or mortal plane], and 
we by Him. " (iCor.8:6.) 



woman, Eve, the Church 
when glorified. (Coloss. 
1:18.) Of man also. 

Jesus, the second Ad- 
am, and the Church are 
to become one, and their 
name one (God), who 
will then become the 
"Christ," God's anoint- 
ed. (Ephes. 5:29; Heb. 
2:11; Acts 15:14.) 

The second Adam and 
the glorified Church are 
to become the head of 
the whole human race on 
the celestial or immortal 
plane. (Rom. 8:21.) 

"And one Lord Jesus 
Christ, through Whom 
are all things (on the 
spiritual or immortal 
plane), and we through 
Him. Howbeit there is 
not in all men that 
knowledge/' (1 Cor. 
8:6-7.) 



God's order in the creation of man is: first, to 
create the natural man mortal; and second, to 
create the natural man spiritual or immortal through 
the Divine power vested in Christ and the glorified 
Church. Paul, in speaking of the two Adams, says: 



14 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

"That was not first which is spiritual, but that 
which is natural, and afterward that which is spir- 
itual." So we find that the first Adam was not 
spiritual. Proof of this is: "As in Adam all die 
[a natural death], even so in Christ shall all be 
made alive/ ' made new creatures in Christ, a new 
creation. "And He that sitteth on the Throne 
[Christ, Jehovah] said: Behold, I make all things 
new. ' ' (Rev. 21:5; Matt. 25 :3 1 .) There is nothing left 
out, nothing lost — not even Judas Iscariot, for he 
only lost his bishopric. All are drawn to Christ, and 
reconciled to His Father, that God may be "all in 
all." We find this thought of the natural and the 
spiritual man pervading the whole Bible. Paul 
says: "Now the unspiritual man [or carnal man] 
receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for 
they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know 
them, because they are spiritually discerned/ ' (1 
Cor. 2:14.) 

The primary purpose of God in giving to mankind 
the Bible is not to teach him the science of as- 
tronomy, zoology, geology, or any of the sciences 
in particular. The most wonderful truths of the 
Bible are buried deeply beneath types, symbols, 
sllegories, metaphors, parables, and "dark saying/ ' 
The carnal-minded man sees only the letter of the 
Word, but the man who has the spirit or mind of 
Christ searches for the deep-hidden treasures of 
God. "For the Spirit of God searcheth all things, yea, 
the deep things of God." (1 Cor. 2 :io.) Jehovah's 
ideal of man is to have man bear the Divine image 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 15 

and likeness of his Maker. Jesus Christ on the 
immortal or God plane is Jehovah's ideal man. 
Jesus Christ is the first one of all the race to bear 
the Divine image and likeness of His Maker, but 
He is not the last. Paul declares: "But we all 
beholding the glory of the Lord, in a face unveiled 
[we can see to the end of God's finished work, but 
with the great multitude the veil of ignorance is 
still on their faces, minds, and hearts], are trans- 
formed into the same likeness from glory to glory, 
even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (1 Cor. 3:18.) 
Knowing that it is generally conceded that the 
vast majority of mankind are candidates for eternal 
woe, misery, torture, and torment, or annihilation 
it is right that we stop and ask whether these 
things are so or not. The question is, Will only a 
few be saved and the many be lost eternally, or 
will all be finally saved and none lost eternally. 
The Word of God must decide the controversy. 
"As Thou [Jehovah] didst give Him [Christ] au- 
thority over all flesh [the whole rac e of mankind], 
so that every thing which Thou hast given to Htm 
He may give to them — even aionian life" [endless 
life]. (John 17:2.) What does Christ do with all 
flesh which Jehovah gave to him? Glorious is the 
prospect! Eternal joy and gladness fill the heart 
of all who are privileged to look to the end of God's 
finished work. " Who shall fashion anew the body 
of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to 
the body of His glory, according to the working 
whereby He is able to subject all things unto Him- 
self r (Phil. 3:21.) 



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Cau,s Things Not in Being as Though Existing, 
" A i/f hough the Works Were Finished (in 
the Purpose of God] from the Founda- 
tion of THE World/ ' (Rom. 4:17; 
Heb. 2:3; Ephes. 1:10.) 

When Abraham was 100 years old and his wife 
90, and they had no child, nor prospect of one, God 
said to Abraham: "A father of many nations I 
have constituted thee, like unto God, e\en God 
["like unto Him, " marg.] who quickeneth the dead, 
and calleth those things which be not as though 
they were." (Rom. 4:17.) This most marvelous 
prophecy of the New Creation was confirmed by 
the unconditional oath-clad promise of God to 
Abraham. Paul, in referring to this oath (in Heb. 
6:17), declares that God made a promise and sware 
to it, and that it was impossible for God to tell a lie 
and swear to it. This iron-clad oath includes "all 
the families of the earth' ' (Gen. 12:3), even to a 
thousand generations (Ps. 105:8), man, male and 
female (Gen. 1 127), and all the hosts of them (Gen. 
2:1). Paul, the chief of sinners, could not make 
God break His oath. 

This oath-bound promise has sole reference to 
the New Creation on the God plane, like unto God, 
even God. Charles Taze Russell limits this promise 
of God unto Abraham and his seed to the Church, 
the 144,000, and leaves all the remainder of man- 
kind on the natural plane, with only the blessing 
of restitution; whereas it is through Christ and 
the glorified Church that all the families of the 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 17 

earth are to be highly exalted to the God plane 
and become gods like unto God, "even God'' God 
summed up the whole matter to the prophet Isaiah 
as follows, saying: "I am God, and there is none 
like Me; declaring the end from the beginning, and 
from ancient times the things that are not yet done, 
saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all 
My pleasure." (Isa. 46:10.) The things spoken of 
in Genesis 1 to Genesis 2:17, as existing near 6,000 
years ago, are some of the ancient things not yet 
done, nor will they be done for unnumbered ages 
yet to come. In the first chapter of Genesis we 
have the spiritual or immortal image account of 
man given us first, and do not reach the natural 
or mortal creation of man until we come to the sev- 
enth verse of the second chapter. Take your Bible 
and look this up. In the first chapter God's fin- 
ished work is given us, and God pronounced it 
"very good." In the second chapter God's un- 
finished work is given us, and from a human stand- 
point of view we pronounce it very bad. Thus does 
God call things not in being or existence as though 
they were already in being or existence. Holding 
the above facts firmly in mind, we have the 

K^ys to the Divine Mysteries, 
and are prepared to suggest a few thoughts on 
Genesis 1 to Genesis 2:17, for the enlightening of 
the gentle reader who is tiled of man-made creeds 
and is hungry for the deep truths of God, which 
revfcal unto us how all the race of mankind will 



1 8 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

eventually in "due time" be exalted to the God 
plane of immortality and endless life. 

Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning God created 
the heavens [spiritual or immortal people, future 
from the time spoken] and the earth' ' [natural or 
mortal people, past from the time spoken]. 

Verse 2 : "And the earth [the mortal or natural 
man] was without form and void [without a knowl- 
edge of the Divine Purpose and Plan], and dark- 
ness was upon the face of the deep [all flesh]. And 
the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the wa- 
ters" [peoples]. The Revelator comments on "wa- 
ters" as follows: "The waters which thou sawelst, 
where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and nations, 
and multitudes, and tongues." (Rev. 17:50.) 

Verse 3: "And God said, Let there be light" 
[an accurate knowledge of Jehovah, His Divine 
Plan and Purpose, as relates to the whole race of 
mankind]. Jesus Christ was that light, prophet- 
ically spoken of 4,004 years before He was born. 
The apostle John comments on that light as follows : 
" In Him was life, and the life was the light of men." 
(John 1 14.) He was spoken of in Genesis 1 as 
"light," but only so in the Divine Purpose and 
Plan, the Divine Mind. This is self-evident, for 
He could neither have life nor be the light of men 
before He was born. Jehovah spoke of Jesus as 
having being or existence 4,004 years before He 
was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary 
or born in Bethlehem and cradled in a manger. 
It is more reasonable, logical, scriptural, and easy 
to believe the simple plain account of the origin 



Jehovah's Finished Work, 19 

of Jesus Christ than the "cunningly devised fables" 
of so-called " orthodoxy' ' about His pre-human ex- 
istence. To affirm that He pre-existed is tanta- 
mount to saying that He existed before He existed. 
This is heterodox, a wild delusion born in the 
brain of theologians. 

Verse 4: "And God saw the light, that it was 
good." Even Jesus was not "good," or perfect, 
on the natural plane. Hear the words of Jesus 
on this point: "Why dost thou call me good? God 
alone is good," or perfect. (Matt. 19:17.) He was 
perfect as a natural man on the human plane, but 
to this He had no reference when He said, "God 
alone is good." He was not perfected till the third 
day. Listen: "And He said unto them, Go and 
say to that fox [Herod], Behold, I cast out demons 
and do cures today and tomorrow, and the third 
day I shall be perfected." The third day here re- 
ferred to was His resurrection from the dead, 
clothed with immortality and the power of an 
endless life; a God, like unto His Father. He 
then became Jehovah's ideal man, being in the 
image and likeness of Jehovah, perfected. 

Verse 5: "And God called the light Day" 
[spiritual-minded people]. Paul says: "For ye are 
all sons of light and of the day, and not darkness." 
(1 Thess. 5 15 .) "And the darkness He called Night" 
[carnally-minded people]. "But ye brethren are 
not in darkness, that that day should overtake you 
as a thief." (1 Thess. 5:4.) "And the evening 
[the mortal or natural] and the morning [the spir- 



20 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

itual] were the first day" [the spiritual man]. The 
Christ Head ajad body — His Bride, the two consti- 
tuting the "one new man" (Ephes. 2:15). "It is 
sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body." 

Verse 6: "And God said, Let there be a firma- 
ment [expanse, space, or division] in the midst of 
the waters [peoples], and let it divide the waters" 
[those without the true knowledge of God from 
those who have such knowledge]. It is the Bible 
truth that makes the expanse or division among 
the waters — the people. 

Verse 7: "And God made the firmament [the 
expanse or division] and divided the waters [peo- 
ples] which were under the firmament [in a carnal 
state of mind] from the waters [peoples] which 
were above the firmament" [in the spiritual state 
of mind]. 

Verse 8: "And God called the firmament 
heaven [a state of spiritual life, joy and peace]. 
And the evening and the morning were the secqnd 
day." "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give 
unto you." (John 14-27.) 

Verse 9: "And God said, Let the waters under 
the heavens [the whole world living in gross darkness] 
be gathered together into one place [or condition 
of ignorance], and let the dry land appear" [natural 
condition]. "Wild waves of the sea, foaming out 
their own shame." (Jude 1:13.) 

Verse 10: "And God called the dry land earth 
[man's natural condition], and the gathering to- 
gether of waters [peoples] called He seas" [the 



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great world of mankind without a knowledge of 
God]. "F.ti[r seeing that in the wisdom of God 
the world in its wisdom knew not God, it was God's 
good pleasure through the foolishness of preaching 
to save them that believe. " (i Cor. 1:21.) 

Verse 11: "And God said, Let the earth [the 
natural man] bring forth grass," etc. Paul com- 
ments on it as "woofel, hay, stubbfe." (1 Cor. 3:12.) 

Verse 21: "And God created great sea mon- 
sters" [syndicates, monopolies, mergers, trusts, com- 
bines, shaving machines, grafting machines, stock 
brokers, Wall Street gamblers, "bulls and bears," 
"corners on the market," and what not]. 

Let the gentj^ reader take the keys and go on 
with the exegesis of the whole chapter. 

Verse 26: "And God said, Let us make man 
in Our image, after Our likeness; and let them 
have dominion ." Bear in mind, once and forever, 
that the above proposition to make man in the 
image and likeness of God, and crown them with 
dominion, is to be carried out after the natural man 
has been created, by taking him from the natural 
or mortal plane and exalting them (the whole race 
of mankind) to the spiritual, immortal, or God plane. 
Now comes the question, Who are the " Us " in God's 
proposition to make man in His image and likeness, 
and also to have dominion? The teaching of the 
rank and file of modern Bible expositors is, that 
God was talking to His Son Jesus Christ, of Whom it 
is affirmed that He had an existence far back in the 
annals of eternity, co-existent with Jehovah, God, 



22 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

His Father, before the creation of the angels, or 
Jehovah laid the foundations of the earth; before 
there was a universe of diamond jets of light, which 
shout around their midnight thrones. From this 
view we kindly dissent and most solemnly protest, 
as being an egregious blunder — a great "heresy" 
and without any Bible proof whatever. We trust 
by the grace of God, as we proceed with the exam- 
ination of this subject, that the gentle reader will 
let reason, common sense, and Bible truth sit firmly 
on the throne of his mind, and decide accordingly. 
We shall now take up what is considered the 
strongest text in the Bible that the supporters of 
this great " heresy" bring forth to bolster up their 
false theory, for that is all it is in fact. We find 
it in John 17:5: "And now, O Father, glorify 
Thou me with Thyself with the glory which I had 
with Thee before the world to be." (Diaglot.) No 
Greek scholar would hazard his reputation by af- 
firming that this is not a correct rendering of the 
Greek in this text. This text does not even hint 
that Christ had an existence with Jehovah before 
the present evil world was, but that it was the glory 
which will be given to Christ in the "world to 
come" (Heb. 1:5), "the world to be," beginning 
with the Messianic Reign, in 1945. That glory 
was vested in Jehovah from the beginning, and 
spoken of in Genesis 1 126 and referred to in Isaiah 
48:11. Christ said to His disciples, but a prayer 
to His Father, "And the glory which Thou hast 
given Me I have given unto them, that they may 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 23 

be one, even as We are one." (John 17:22.) Did 
Christ mean to say that He had given to His dis- 
ciples His pre-existence ? Did He give them that 
which our opponents affirm He (Christ) is said to 
have had before the foundation of the world — a 
pre-existent life? Our opponents have no argu- 
ment at all, but simply "beg the question" to 
bolster up their ''heresy." It is the glory of the 
"world to be 17 that Christ promised to His disciples, 
if they would suffer with Him and be faithful 
even unto death. In the Divine picture which Je- 
hovah has given us of His Son, He stands out before 
us as the Lamb of God slain from before the founda- 
tion of the world; yet He was not slain till about 
4,034 years after the foundation of the world. How 
could He be slain before He became a Lamb, born in 
Bethlehem? Having fully established the fact all 
through this humble little volume, that Jesus Christ 
had no existence till He was conceived of the Holy 
Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary and born 
of her at Bethlehem of Judea, and that He was not 
Christ till He was anointed at Jordan, we rest the 
matter here, and affirm that Christ, the Immortal 
One on the God plane, is the head one of the "Us" 
Class, who is to have dominion over all the earth 
during the Messianic Reign, and onward till all rule, 
authority, and power is put down and God is all in 
all. But He is to have associated with Him 144,000 
"joint heirs," " sanctified brethren," who are to 
share with Him the glory of the Kingdom Reign. 
Neither Christ nor the Church have yet entered 



24 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

into that glory the Father promised Him, and He 
(Christ) promised the Church — the glory of "the 
world to be," nor can they do so till the kingdom 
is "set up," established, in 1945. It is yet only 
prospective. Is He to be a king? So are they. 
Is He to be a judge? So are they. Is he to be a 
king-priest? So are they. Is He to be a mediator? 
So are they. Is He to have a throne? So are they. 
Has He the power of life and death? So will they 
have. Is He to have dominion from sea to sea, and 
from the rivers to the end of the earth? So are 
they. Is He to have authority to break the na- 
tions with a rod of iron? So are they. Is He not 
to be the Father of the race of all mankind when 
it is regenerated? Are not the 144,000, the Bride, 
the Lamb's wife, to assist Him in the regeneration 
of the race and thus become the mother of all man- 
kind? Is not all this and much more the glory 
which God promised to Christ, and He has prom- 
ised to the Church when exalted to the God plane? 
Are not these things the things the angels desired 
to look into and all about the time or manner of 
time when they should be accomplished ? 

The Earth to Be Replenished by This Mys- 
terious "Us" Class, the Christ 
Head and Body. 
"Replenish: To recover former fulness." — Web- 
ster. The word in Latin is from re, meaning ' ' again' ' 
and plenus, meaning "full." So we find that the 
earth is to be made full again. It will have been 
made full of mortal Adamic stock at the end of a 



Jehovah* s Finished Work. 25 

thousand generations. Further, at the end of that 
period it is to be made full of regenerated stock 
on the immortal or God plane. We may illustrate 
it by a mammoth cistern partly filled with water, 
with an inflow pipe and an outflow pipe. While 
the natural, mortal Adamic stock is filling up the 
world with inhabitants through the inflow pipe, 
so to speak, Christ and the glorified Church on 
the immortal or God plane are to be emptying 
the earth of its natural mortal inhabitants by means 
of the outflow pipe, so to speak ; and thus it is 
to be refilled with the New Creation at the end 
of a thousand generations (Ps. 105:8). " Behold, I 
[Christ] make all things new" This work of filling 
and refilling will most likely be accomplished at 
the end of 49,000 years. But before the earth can 
be replenished or filled full again, it must be emptied. 
"Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and 
maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down [it is 
down side up now], and scattereth abroad the in- 
habitants thereof." (Isa. 24:1.) It is not made 
empty at once, nor is it filled at once. The empty- 
ing began with Jesus Christ, Who was of Adamic 
stock, "the offspring of David," the "seed" of the 
''woman" — the Virgin Mary. If there was a 
Christ who existed far back in the annals of eternity, 
before Jesus became the Christ at His anointing 
at Jordan, then we have two Christs! And as a 
result the Church has two heads on one body, 
which is a frightful "mongrel." It is the "seed of 
he woman" that is to bruise the serpent's head, 



26 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

and not some imaginary theological "myth" that 
existed untold millions of years before even the 
woman was born of whom the Saviour was to be 
born. Marvelous indeed that men calling them- 
selves the "embassadors for God" should have 
the boldness and blindness to take that first dim 
but Divine promise of a Saviour to come, given in 
Genesis 3:15, and hide it away in a dark cave, or 
lay it up on the shelf of oblivion, and then offer 
to the world a myth, or a "cunningly devised 
fable," for a Saviour. It cannot be that the writers 
of this little volume live in a "glass house," there- 
fore they are not afraid to throw these stones of 
truth at the enemies of truth. When Jesus Christ 
was taken from the natural or mortal plane, and 
highly exalted to the immortal or God plane, the 
work of replenishing the earth began. But the 
emptying or refilling of the earth has gone no 
farther as yet, save to take out a "people for His 
name" from among the Gentiles. This work of 
taking out the people for His name will end at 
the first resurrection in 1945. What is the name? 
The name is God. Christ got His name by "in- 
heritance" (Hebrews 1:4). We, the "little flock" 
(Luke 12:32), the Church to be glorified, obtain 
our new name by being adopted into the family 
of God. The Church are now "heirs of God and 
joint heirs with Christ," prospectively so by faith, 
but actually so by being born out of the death 
condition at the first resurrection. So the "new 
name" given to the Church "on a white stone," 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 27 

which no man knoweth it but he that receiveth 
it (Rev. 2:17), is God (Rev. 3:12). We, the Church, 
have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we 
cry, "Abba, Father. " Only those who understand 
this can intelligently say, "Our Father who art in 
Heaven, hallowed be Thy name." Only those 
who now bear that new name will be glorified 
in the first or chief resurrection in 1945, when 
Jesus comes to be glorified in His saints. Not 
till then will the harvest, or any portion of it, 
take place. "Behold, a secret I disclose to you: 
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the 
last trump [not one will be changed a moment 
before]; for it will sound, and the dead w411 be 
raised incorruptible, and we [the living saints] 
shall be changed. " (1 Cor. 15:51-52.) Both the 
living and the dead in Christ, bearing His name, 
will all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling 
of an eye. Now, dear people of God, what have you 
to say about the resurrection having taken place 
in 1878, according to the dates of that well-meaning 
man, C. T. Russell? What have I to do with 
separating the wheat from the tares? Jesus said 
to let the wheat and the tares grow together till 
the harvest, and that the harvest is the end of 
the age. It is high time that the wheat and tares 
among Bible Students quit trying to toot each 
other up, but let all grow till the harvest — the end 
of the Gospel Age. What a miserable wrangle and 
jangle International Bible Students are now pass- 



28 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

ing through because they have not understood 
these things and rightly divided the words of truth. 
This quick and sudden change of the whole Church 
was typed by Elijah. He was taken from Blisha in 
a moment, as it were, by a whirlwind into Heaven. 
"And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my 
father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen 
thereof !" Elijah was the one man symbolizing 
the one body of Christ, the 144,000, the one Bride, 
all to be changed at the last trump, the Resurrec- 
tion Day, 1945, 10 a. m., the twentieth day of Sep- 
tember. Then the earth will be emptied of so 
many of its inhabitants, and at the same time re- 
plenished with the same number. The harvest 
work, separating the wheat from the tares, precedes 
the resurrection. 

I have heard my Father calling 

For a people for Christ's Bride. 
On my ears 'tis sweetly falling; 

There's no voice so sweet beside. 

Christ and the Church, 144,400 and one, com- 
pose the family of God, Jehovah, on the God plane. 
The remainder of the human family, when exalted 
to the God plane by Christ and the Church, com- 
pose the family of Christ and the Church. Bear 
in mind that Christ and the Church are to be the 
regenerators on the heavenly plane. "When we 
see Him, we shall be like Him [Christ]; for we 
shall see Him as He is" [not as He was]. When 
144,000 gods begin the work of the regeneration of 
the race, the work will progress very rapidly. Hal- 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 29 

lelujah, what a Saviour! Jesus spoke these great 
truths about men on the mortal plane becoming 
gods to the Jews, but they said to Him: "For a 
good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, 
and that because thou, being a man, makest thy- 
self God." Jesus answered them : "Is it not 
written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If He 
[Jehovah] called them gods, unto whom the word 
of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken), 
say ye of Him whom the Father sanctified and 
sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because 
I said, I am the Son of God?" (John 10:33-36.) 
That the reader may know that Jesus did not mis- 
represent His Father in saying that the Jews (and 
all mankind, for that matter) were gods (in the 
plan and purpose of Jehovah), I quote what Jesus 
said was written in their law: "I said, Ye are 
gods; and all of you sons of the Most High. Nev- 
ertheless ye shall die like men, and fall like one 
of the princes.' ' (Ps. 82:6-7.) Surely the Jews 
were not gods when they were thirsting for His 
blood. Jesus told them that they were of their fath- 
er the Devil, and the works of their father they 
would do. 

This statement of the Master was prophetic 
and pointed forward to Jehovah's finished work 
in the Ages to come. As said before, all humanity 
will be taken from the natural or mortal state or 
condition and translated to the immortal state or 
condition, in God's "due time," according to Ro- 
mans 8:21, which reads as follows: "That the 



30 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

creation itself [the whole race of mankind] shall 
be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into 
the liberty of the children of God." Thus we 
find that the whole earth is to be replenished, re- 
filled, filled again, according to fhe prophetic state- 
ment of Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man in Our 
image, after Our likeness, and let them have do- 
minion" by this mysterious "Us" Class, "the 
Christ," Head and body. In this first chapter 
of Genesis we have a comprehensive view of a 
thousand generations of natural or mortal men, 
by the first Adam and Eve, and also the regenera- 
tion of these thousand generations, exalting them 
to the immortal or God plane, through Christ and 
the glorified Church. Strange indeed that so many 
would-be Bible Students should take all the proph- 
ecies which point forward to Christ and the glorified 
Church, and turn them around, and make them 
point backward to an imaginary Christ — a ' ' myth ' ' ! 
Still stranger yet that men of brains can be made 
to believe and preach that Jesus Christ is older 
than the Holy Spirit that begat Him in the womb 
of the Virgin Mary ! Thus we find by every count 
and score, all through the Bible, that Jesus Christ 
had no existence before He was begotten of the 
Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and 
was born of her in Bethlehem, and that through 
Christ and the glorified Church "the heavens and 
the earth were finished, and all the hosts of them" 
(Gen. 2:1). "I am God, and there is none like Me 
[not even Christ when this was spoken, or written], 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 3 1 

declaring the end from the beginning [so declared 
in Genesis 1 126], and from ancient times the things 
that are not yet done." "And we bring you good 
tidings [though some will regard it as rank " here- 
sy' '] of the promise made unto the fathers, that 
God hath fulfilled the same unto our children, in 
that He raised up Jesus, as also it is written in 
the second psalm: Thou art My Son; this day 
[day of His resurrection] have I begotten Thee. 
And as concerning that He raised Him up from 
the dead, now no more to return to corruption, 
He hath spoken on this wise: I will give you the 
sure mercies of David" "Because He saith also 
in another psalm: Thou wilt not give Thine Holy 
One to see corruption/' The conclusion is inev- 
itable, and unalterably and eternally fixed by the 
unimpeachable word of Jehovah, that God has 
but one "only begotten" Son, and that this Son 
was born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius 
Pilate, was crucified on a Roman cross, died and 
was buried, and the third day burst the barriers 
of the tomb, chaining death, hell, and the grave to 
His chariot wheels, and forty days after ascended 
to Hi$ Father on high, and will there remain till 
the end of the Gospel Age in 1945, and then, and 
not till then, He will return again to meet His Bride 
in the "air" and take her into the everlasting 
kingdom, which Jehovah will have fully estab- 
lished by that date. Any other view than this 
makes it necessary for God to have two "only be- 
gotten" Sons. 



32 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

"Be not afraid [of these glad tidings]; for, be- 
hold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which 
shall be to all people. For there is born to you 
this day in the city of David a Saviour, Who is 
Christ the Lord." (Luke 2:10.) As for me, I will 
shout with the "multitude di the heavenly host/' 
praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest! 
dn earth peace and good will to men." Dear reader, 
I have no objection to you shouting with the theo- 
logians if you prefer to do so, after having care- 
fully and prayerfully studied these things from a 
Bible standpoint. "Consider what I say; for the 
Lord shall give thee understanding in all things. 
Remember Jesus Christ ripen from the dead, of the 
seed of David, according to my gospel." (2 Tim. 2 7.) 
"Behold, the days come [future], saith Jehovah, 
that I will raise unto David a righteous branch. 79 
(Jer. 23:5.) "Behold the man whose name is 
The Branch." (Zech. 6:12.) On the natural or 
mortal plane, David was the "root" and Jesus 
was the "Branch"; on the immortal or God plane, 
Christ is to be the "Root" and David is to be the 
"branch." This "Branch of David," this "off- 
spring of David," is set at naught of our modern 
Temple tinkerers. On this immortal or God plane, 
Christ is not only the "Root" of David, but He 
is the "Root" of the whole human family. The 
"Root" will bear branches of its own kind. As the 
"Root" is a God like unto Jehovah, so the branches 
[the whole human race] will be gods like unto 
Jehovah. 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 33 

" And in none other is there salvation; for neither 
is there any other name under heaven, that is given 
among men, whereby we must be saved.' " (Acts 4:12.) 
This is your only hope of salvation. "Worthy is 
the Lamb." 

Mary had a little Lamb, 

With morals white as snow. 
In Bethlehem the Lamb was born, 

Two thousand years ago. 
In Him alone we must be saved; 
We know there is none other. 
He holds the keys of death and hell; 
He is our Elder Brother. 
Jehovah looked down over the cycling "Ages 
of the Ages' ' and saw His finished work "done" 
through Christ and the glorified Church. "And 
God saw every thing that He had made, and, be- 
hold, it was very good." (Gen. 1:31.) "And there 
shall be no more any thing accursed; and the 
throne of God and of the Lamb shall be therein, 
and His servants shall serve Him. " (Rev. 22:3.) 
Glory to the Great I Am! And worthy, worthy 
is the Lamb. 

Restitution First, Re-Creation Second. 

When Jehovah placed Adam in the Garden 
of Eden, on trial, He gave him a perfect organism, 
and the power of choice, and endowed him with 
the mental ability to choose good and to resist 
evil — free to obey God and live, or disobey God 
and die. This one law of life and death pervades 
the whole Bible, but nowhere sets up the claim 



34 Jehovah* s Finished Work. 

that death is eternal non-existence, either in this 
age or in the Ages to come. The whole race of man* 
kind had its first trial in Adam, and failed. We 
may say that if Jehovah had created in the begin- 
ning a thousand generations of people like Adam's 
posterity will be and has been, natural men, mortal, 
subject to vanity, and placed them on trial as 
Adam was placed, the result would be the same, 
only with this difference or distinction: If each 
one of the thousand generations failed as Adam did, 
it would require as many Saviours to redeem the 
race as there would be individuals composing the 
generations. So we must console ourselves that 
the plan of Jehovah, in dealing with His creatures 
as He has done and is still doing, is the very best 
that His Divine Wisdom could devise. The Di- 
vine Plan must of necessity be absolutely perfect, 
and could not be improved upon even by Himself; 
for He can make no mistakes or be disappointed by 
any contingency in whatever course His creatures 
might pursue. If death were an eternal sleep, and 
Jehovah could go down into death to pay the pen- 
alty for sin, He never could come out of death 
any more, and hence could not redeem the race. 
The same reasoning holds true if eternal torment 
is true. The same logic holds good if annihilation 
is true or valid. Anyone going down into death 
as a substitute for any of the above penalties could 
not be the Saviour of the race. Such a penalty 
holds both the substitute and the race of mankind, 
and never could be paid. The record does not say 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 35 

how long Adam was to remain dead. But let us 
suppose that the penalty for Adam's sin was death 
for "three days and three nights," and someone 
takes it upon himself to pay the penalty, and goes 
down into death, as Christ did, and remains dead 
for that length of time, and then comes forth a 
victor out of death ; that fact shows that the pen- 
alty is fully paid. Suppose, again, that the one 
who assumes the obligation of paying the penalty 
should fail to come back into life in the specified 
time; this would be conclusive evidence that the 
penalty was not paid. Jehovah might have said 
to Adam, "If you eat of that tree which I told 
you not to eat of or touch, I will shut you up in a 
dark cave for a certain length of time to punish 
you for your disobedience, and then I will let you 
out again, and if you will not be obedient, I will 
shut you up again," etc. ; but He did not do that. 
The first thing before the world goes on trial 
is to perfect their mental organism. A just God 
cannot require of anyone more than his ability to 
perform. It would be folly to think of placing 
lunatics, fools, idiots, and babies on trial for life 
eternal. Jehovah did not do this in the case of 
Adam in Eden. The whole race was reckoned 
perfect in Adam, in its mentality and organism on 
the natural plane. The whole race was condemned 
in Adam as the representative man or head of the 
race. So all die in Adam. Jesus, the second 
Adam on the natural plane, canceled the sin of 
the first Adam on the natural plane, and the whole 



36 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

race who sinned in him; "He gave Himself a ransom 
for all." He bore the sin of the whole world in 
His body on the tree. The Adamic debt having 
been canceled, this clears the way for an individual 
trial through Christ for the whole race. This trial 
will be a judgment unto victory. "O grave, where 
is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?" 
Death will be swallowed up in victory. Christ's 
victory over death is not complete as long as any 
one of Adam's race remains in death. "God hath 
appointed a day in which He will judge the world 
[not the Church] in righteousness by that Man 
whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given 
assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him 
from the dead." (Acts 17-31.) Christ could have 
no right to judge the whole world if He had not 
bought the whole world. So it is written of Him: 
"And thou shalt call His name Jesus; for it is He 
that shall save His people from their sins." (Matt. 
1 :2i.) They were not His people before He bought 
them with His own precious blood on Calvary's 
cross. There and then He bought the whole race of 
mankind. So the invincible logic of it all is, that 
He will save from sin all He bought. When all His 
people are saved from sin and death, there will be 
nothing left in sin for death to reign over ; so death 
will be annihilated, destroyed. In this great Judg- 
ment Day of the anointed Christ, Head and body, 
at least one hundred years (Isa. 65:20) will be 
given to each individual for trial and restitution, 
under the reign of the Anointed, which is not due 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 37 

to begin till 1945. "0 r know ye not that the 
saints shall judge the world" (1 Cor. 6:2) during 
its trial days, the Ages to come (Ephes. 2 7) ? 

The Holy Spirit will be poured out on all flesh 
(Joel 2:28) as fast as all flesh is restituted, brought 
back to Adamic mental and physical perfection, 
or manhood. The Holy Spirit was not poured 
out on Jesus, the natural Adam, till He had reached 
manhood, about thirty years of age (Luke 3:23), 
and then His trial for immortality and eternal life 
began. His trial resulted in victory, and Jehovah 
highly exalted Him to the God plane. With the 
Church which is now on trial for immortality and 
eternal life it is quite different. On account of 
not having Adamic perfection, its deficiency is 
made up by the imputed merit of Jesus Christ. 
"My little children, these things I write unto you, 
that ye may not sin. And if any man [adopted 
by faith into the family of God] sin, we have an 
advocate with the Father [Christ is not advocate 
for the world now], Jesus Christ, the righteous. 
And He is a propitiation on account of our sins; 
and not on account of ours only, but also on ac- 
count of the whole world." (1 John 2:1-2.) Christ 
Jesus, the righteous One, will not become the ad- 
vocate for the world till its trial for judgment Day 
begins in 1945. 

But before a fair, full, and impartial trial for 
eternal life can be had, restitution must be ac- 
complished. One of the Saviour's parables makes 
this truth plain. The seed of the "sower" who 



38 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

went forth to sow fell upon four different kinds 
of ground: the hard-trodden "wayside," " among 
thorns," on "stony ground," and "in good soil." 
Only that seed which fell in good ground brought 
forth fruit to perfection. It is mental and phys- 
ical restitution that prepares the great stony-hearted 
world to receive the seeds of truth in the Messianic 
Reign. "And Jesus went about all the cities and 
villages, healing all manner of dis- 
eases and all manner of sickness." (Matt. 9:35.) 
This is a type of what must be done when Christ 
begins His kingdom reign. "And they come to 
Jesus, and behold him that was possessed of de- 
mons, sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even 
him that had the legion." (Mark 5:15.) This 
is another of the many types pointing forward to 
the coming Kingdom Ages, and what must be 
done for the people before they can enter upon 
a fair and impartial trial for eternal life. "Say 
to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, 
fear not; behold, your God will come with venge- 
ance, with the recompense of God; He will come 
and save you." (Isa. 35:4.) This is when Christ 
comes into His kingdom, 1945. "Then the eyes of 
the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf 
shall be unstopped; then shall the lame man leap 
as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; 
for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and 
streams in the desert." If you want to know 
more about this subject, get your Bible and read 
the whole of the chapter. 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 39 

"And His disciples asked Him, saying, Rabbi, 
who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should 
be born blind ?" From time immemorial, men 
have been wont to associate phyical calamities, 
financial losses, and crosses with some great sin 
the person has committed; but this is not always 
true by any means. "Jesus answered, Neither 
did this man sin, nor his parents; but that the 
works of God should be made manifest in him." 
(John 9:2-3.) There are millions of people who 
have been born blind naturally, and died blind, 
who were in no sense to blame for their misfortune. 
Still others have become blind since being born 
through no fault of theirs. Natural blindness is 
typal of another kind of blindness more disastrous 
than physical blindness. The whole world is 
spiritually blind — born so. "Behold, I was shapen 
in iniquity; in sin did my mother conceive me." 
"And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in 
them that are perishing; in whom the god of this 
age hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, 
that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, 
Who is the image of God, should not dawn upon 
them. " (2 Cor. 4:3.) In Isaiah 61 :i-6 and onward 
we learn that Christ was anointed with the Holy 
Spirit for the very purpose of opening "the prison 
to them that are bound" and proclaiming the day 
of Jehovah's favor to all that mourn. What He 
did while here in the flesh is but a faint type of 
what He will do in the coming kingdom. The 
prophet of God calls special attention to this future 



40 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

work of the anointed Christ Head and body when 
He comes into His kingdom. He refers to the 
kingdom under the figure or symbol of a " moun- 
tain, " as follows: "And in this mountain will 
Jehovah of hosts [a thousand generations of peo- 
ples] make unto all peoples a feast of fat things 
[hitherto we have had it that the feast of fat things 
was only for a few of this present Gospel Age, and the 
remainder were to be eternally damned], a feast of 
wines on the lees [wines of the kingdom], of fat 
thijngs full of marrow [theologians who have been 
preaching eternal " torment' ' together with their 
flocks have become very "lean" and need some 
spiritual fat or oil or they may dry up and blow 
away], of wines on the lees well refined. And He 
will destroy ["swallow up/ ' marg.] in this mountain 
[Kingdom of Christ] the face of the covering that 
covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread 
over all nations. [When the "covering" is de- 
stroyed and the "veil" is removed, world-wide 
wars will cease.] He hath swallowed up death 
forever [when this is done, no one will remain 
dead], and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears 
from all faces, and the reproach of His people will 
He take away from off all the earth ["Praise ye the 
Lord!"]; for Jehovah hath spoken it [if you deny 
it, you are an infidel]. And it shall be said in that 
day [that kingdom day, not this gospel day or age, 
in which the Bride is being selected], "Lo, this is 
our God; we have waited for Him, and He will- 
save us; this is Jehovah; .... we will rejoice in 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 41 

His salvation. For in this mountain [Kingdom of 
Christ] will the hand of Jehovah rest. ' ' (Isa. 25 :6-io.) 
Jesus, the anointed Son of God, the " faithful and 
true witness," in whom was no guile, confirmed 
this statement of Jehovah when He said, "I will 
draw all men unto Me." Jesus Christ said: "It is 
written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught 
of God." This leaves no one in ignorance of God. 
"And all thy children shall be taught of Jehovah. " 
(Isa. 54:13.) "He that sat upon the throne said, 
Behold, I make all things new. " (Rev. 21:5.) They 
are all first taught of God, and afterward made new. 
"And He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, 
and death shall be no more. Neither shall there be 
mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more.'" (Rev. 
ai 14.) "All the ends of the earth shall remember 
2nd turn unto Jehovah. And all the kindreds of the 
nations shall worship before Thee." (Ps. 22:27.) 

But again. We have been told that restitution 
ends with the Millennial Reign, and then from that 
time forward everlasting life only is offered, con- 
ditioned on continued obedience to Divine law. 
Right there our Restitution Age people drop the 
whole matter, and fail to see that restitution is 
only a preliminary necessity, and must be accom- 
plished before anyone can have a fair and impartial 
trial for immortality and eternal life. What use 
could lunatics, fools, idiots, and babies make of 
the Holy Spirit? Jehovah's ideal of the New 
Creation of the race is Jesus Christ on the God 
plane, almighty, ever-living, immortal, able to 



42 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

work all things after the counsel of their own wills 
So we find that Jesus Christ is Jehovah's ideal of 
man in the image and likeness of God. Because 
in Him dwells all the fullness of the Deity bodily 
(Col. 2:9). "In which is stored all the treasures 
of wisdom and knowledge. " (Col. 2:3.) When 
Jesus was on the natural or mortal plane, He said: 
" My Father is greater than I. " (John 14:28.) For 
He was then bone of our bone and flesh of our 
flesh, made like unto His brethren, for the suffering 
of death. Paul speaks of Him on the natural 
plane as follows: "Who, though being in God's 
form, yet did not meditate a usuipation to be like 
God, but divested Himself, and took a bondman's 
form, having [first] been made in the likeness of 
men." (Phil. 2:6-7.) A mortal man, but second 
on the God plane, perfected in His organism, an 
immortal being, in which now dwells all the full- 
ness of the Deity, with ail His attributes. It did 
not rob God of any of His attributes or glory for 
Christ to be highly exalted to the God plane and 
Divine nature, and become equal with God. On 
the contrary, it glorified God. God has given to 
the Church (first, before the world) the right or 
privilege of becoming sons of God on the God 
plane, "joint heirs" with Christ, "partakers of the 
Divine nature" (2 Peter 1:4). "Have this mind in 
you, which also was in Christ Jesus." (PhiL 2:5.) 
For it is the shining light that shineth more and 
more on the upward pathway to the throne of the 
Sternal. Such a mind will not rob God of any of 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 43 

His glory. What was the mind that was in Christ 
Jesus? It was this: It would not rob God for 
Christ to aspire to be equal with God. Neither will 
it rob God for me or anyone to aspire to be equal 
with God. As Christ is God's ideal man, and as 
Christ is the head of every man, it logically follows 
that every man should aspire to be a god ''like 
unto God — even God." To attain to such a state 
or condition would not rob God. If I were "alto- 
gether lovely/' it would not rob me of any of my 
loveliness for all my sons and daughters to be 
like me. Exceeding great and precious promises 
are given to us all, that by these we all might be- 
come "partakers of the Divine nature" (2 Peter 1 4). 
This is the mind that was in Christ Jesus. 

The Glad Tidings ov Great Joy Which Shall 
Be to All People; The Gospel of God 
in Type and Antitype. 
Abraham in his old age begat a son, Isaac (Gen. 
21:7); Jehovah in His old age begat a Son, Jesus 
(Luke 1:35). Abraham offered his son in sacrifice 
(Gen. 22:3-10), and received him in a figure from 
the dead (Heb. 11:19); God offered His Son in 
sacrifice (1 Cor. 15:3-4). Abraham took Isaac to 
his own home, after he in figure received him as 
from the dead; God took Jesus to His (Jehovah's) 
home after He raised Him from the dead (Heb. 8:1). 
Isaac afterwards got married, but he did not select 
his own wife, but Abraham sent Eleazar, his eldest 
servant, that ruled over all that Abraham had, to 
select a wife for Isaac (Gen. 24:4), and he met a 



44 Jehovah* s Finished Work. 

virgin maid, Rebecca by name, at the well where 
she came to draw natural water; so God sent his 
oldest servant, the Holy Spirit, to select a "chaste 
virgin," the Church, to be the Bride of Jesus (2 Cor. 
11:2), and the Holy Spirit met the chaste virgin 
on the day of Pentecost, when she came to draw 
the spii/itual water from the great well of salvation 
(Acts 2:1-4), which would be in them a well of 
water springing up into everlasting life (John 4:14). 
Isaac and Rebecca meet in the open plain and 
greet each other (Gen. 24:64), and after this meeting 
on the open plain, Isaac took his bride into his 
mother's tent; Christ and the Church, the bride, 
the Lamb's wife, meet in the open plain in the 
"air" (1 Thess. 4:17) and greet each other, and 
Christ then takes His Bride to His mother Mary's 
tent, the earth, a dwelling-place at Jerusalem, 
where the throne of Christ and the Bride is to be 
established, according to the Scriptures, as the 
"tabernacle" of God with men (Rev. 21:3). Isaac 
loved Rebecca; Christ loved the Church. List 
the carol of the bridegroom: "Behold, thou art 
fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are 
as doves' behind thy veil." (Song of Sol. 4:1.) List 
the carol of the Bride: "My Beloved is white 
and ruddy, the chief est among ten thousand; His 
head is as the most fine gold ; H/ijs locks are bushy 
and black as a raven; His eyes are as doves' eyes, 

beside the water brooks; His mouth is 

most sweet; yea, He is altogether lovely. This is 
my Beloved, and this is my Friend." (Song of Sol. 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 45 

5:10-11, 16.) Isaac is comforted after the death 
of his mother; Christ is comforted after the death 
of Hi's mother. Isaac and Rebecca were to become 
the father and mother of thousands of millions on 
the natural plane (Gen. 24:60) ; Christ and the glori- 
fied Church are to become the father and mother of 
thousands of millions on the spiritual or God plane 
(Isa. 9:6; Rom. 4:17 and 8:21). 

Joseph on the Natural or Mortal Plane Types 
Jesus on Both the Natural or Mortal 
Plane and on the Spiritual, Im- 
mortal, or God Plane. 
"It is sown an animal body; it is raised a spir- 
itual body. If there is an animal body, there is 

also a spiritual body The spiritual, 

however, was not the first, but the natural, afterward 
the spiritual." (1 Cor. 15 44-46.) When Jacob was 
old, he begat a son, Joseph; when Jehovah was old, 
He begat a Son, Jesus. Joseph, Jacob's son, was 
born of a woman; Jesus, Jehovah's "only begotten 
Son," was born of a woman, Mary by name. Joseph 
could not be older than his mother; Jesus could not 
be older than His mother. Joseph was hated by 
his brethren without a cause (Gen. 37:4); Jesus 
was hated without a cause (Ps. 35:19; Luke 23:40; 
John 15:25). Joseph was a revealer of secrets, 
visions and dreams (Gen. 41 .-5 36); Jesus a revealer 
of secrets, visions, dreams, symbols, and parables 
(Matt. 13:40; Luke 24:27). Joseph worked in the 
harvest-field with his brethren before he went into 
a far country, Egypt (Gen. 37 7-8) ; Jesus worked in 



46 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

the Jewish harvest with His brethren, the disciples, a 
short time before He went into a far country, Heav- 
en (John 5:17). Joseph's garments were stained with 
blood at the hands of his brethren (Gen. 37:31); 
Jesus' garments were stained with blood (John 
19 134) . Joseph was put into a dry pit (Gen. 37 128) ; 
Jesus was put into a dry pit, cut out of stone (Matt. 
37 : 59)- Joseph was sold to the Ishmaelites for 
twenty pieces of silver (Gen. 37:28); Jesus was 
sold for thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests 
and Jewish people (Matt. 26:14-15). Joseph was 
taken out of the pit alive, and his natural life pro- 
longed (Gen. 37:28); Jesus was taken out of the 
pit alive, with the power of an endless life (Rev. 
1:18). Joseph's enemies sought to kill him, but 
God provided for him a way of escape by send- 
ing him to Egypt (Gen. 45 15) ; Jesus' enemy, Herod, 
sought to kill Him, but God sent Him down into 
Egypt to preserve His life, till Herod and all that 
sought His life were dead (Matt. 2:13). Joseph was 
put into prison in Egypt because he would not 
surrender his virtue to a vile woman, a hypocrite, 
Potiphar's wife (Gen. 39 120) ; Jesus was put into pris- 
no because He would not surrender His virtue, or 
morals, and join in sectarian worship, and play 
the hypocrite as did the scribes and Pharisees (Isa. 
53:81). Jehovah was with Joseph (Gen. 39:21); 
Jehovah was with Jesus in Egypt (Matt. 2:19-20). 
Joseph's feet were hurt with fetters of iron down in 
Egypt (Ps. 105:18); Jesus' feet were hurt with iron 
nails when He was nailed to the cross (Ps. 22:16). 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 47 

Joseph left his garments in the hands of that vile 
woman who persecuted him because he would not 
surrender his virtue (Gen. 39:12) ; Jesus left His gar- 
ments in the hands of His persecutors (Ps. 22:18; 
Matt. 27:35). Joseph showed the chief butler that 
within three days he would be taken from prison 
and exalted to become Pharaoh's natural cup- 
bearer, a very great honor (Gen. (40:13); Jesus 
was taken from prison, the tomb, after three days, 
and exalted to the God plane, next to Jehovah, to 
bear the "cup of blessing" to His brethren, and 
next to all the world (Matt. 26 126) . Through Joseph 
an abundance of natural food was stored away for 
the Egyptians in time of famine (Gen. 41:36); 
through Jesus an abundance of spiritual food was 
stored away, first for His brethren, and next for 
all Egypt (the whole world) (John 21:15-18 and 
John 6:51). To Joseph the command was given, 
"Bow the knee," and all Egypt obeyed (Gen. 41 143) ; 
to Jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue 
confess that Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the 
Father (Phil. 2:10). Joseph was exalted to be the 
ruler of all Egypt, only Pharaoh on the throne 
was higher (Gen. 41:40); Jesus has been "highly 
exalted " to be the ruler of all Egypt (the world in 
the coming Ages of the Ages) , Jehovah only being 
higher on the throne (1 Cor. 15:27-28). Joseph 
was king-priest over all Egypt, having married 
Asenath, the daughter of the priest of On (the City 
of the Sun), and had all religious matters under 
his control as well as matters of state; Jesus is to 



48 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

be a King-Priest, and is to marry the Church in 
the first resurrection, at His second coming, and 
is to have full control of all Egypt (the whole world) 
during the coming ages (Rev. 19:16). Joseph was 
thirty years of age when he stood before Pharaoh, 
king of all Egypt (Gen. 41:46); Jesus was about 
thirty years of age when He stood before Jehovah, 
the Ruler of the whole world, and began to teach 
(Luke 3:23). Joseph made a great dinner for his 
brethren first, for it was an abomination for Egyp- 
tians to eat with the Hebrews (Gen. 43:31); Jesus 
first served His brethren, the twelve disciples, at 
the Passover supper, and He will next 3erve all 
Egypt (the world) in the coming ages (Rom. 1 :i6). 
Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, for the famine 
was sore upon all the land (Gen. 47 :2o) ; Jesus 
bought all the land of Egypt (the whole world), 
for the spiritual famine is sore upon all the land 
(1 Cor. 6:20; Amos 8:11-12). To Joseph was giv- 
en a change of raiment when he was released 
from the prison and came before Pharaoh, king 
of all Egypt (Gen. 41:14); to Jesus was given a 
change of raiment when He was released from the 
prison-house of death and appeared before Jehovah, 
King of all the world. Jesus was changed from 
mortal to immortal — exalted to the God plane. 
Joseph gave to all his brethren changes of raiment 
(Gen. 45 :22) ; Jesus will give to His brethren 144,000 
changes of raiment in the first resurrection, clothe 
them with immortality, and crown them with 
eternaj. life (1 Cor. 15:51-52). Joseph bought all 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 49 

the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, and the land be- 
came Pharaoh's (Gen. 47 120) ; Jesus bought all the 
land of Egypt (the world) for Jehovah, and at the 
end of the Messianic Reign all the land of Egypt 
(the world) will become Jehovah's (Ps. 24:1). Jo- 
seph took an oath of the children of Israel that 
they would carry his bones up out of the land 
of Egypt to the land of Canaan when God should 
visit them in after years (Gen. 50:20); Jesus' bones 
(not flesh and blood, but flesh and bones) were 
taken up from Egypt (the world) at His resur- 
rection, and taken to the heavenly Canaan (Heb. 
8:1-2). Joseph's brethren, all the hosts of them, 
all Israel, go up out of the land of Egypt, to go in- 
to the land of Canaan (Ex. 12:51); Jesus' brethren 
according to the flesh are to go up out of the land 
of Egypt (the world) by their hosts, a thousand 
generations (Ps. 105:8), to the heavenly Canaan 
(condition) in the Ages to come (Gen. 2:1; Ephes. 
1:10; Col. 1:15-20). Joseph and his wife Asenath 
became the father and mother of a great host of 
people — England and America, and these two great 
nations are their descendants, both those living 
and those dead; Jesus and His Bride, the wife of 
the Lamb, the 144,000, are to become the Father 
and Mother of thousands of millions on the God 
plane (Rom. 8:21 and 4:6; Isa. 9:6). Joseph was 
selected to teach the elders (law-makers, senat- 
ors) of Pharaoh wisdom (Ps. 105:22); Jesus was se- 
lected to teach the elders (senators, law-makers, 
priests — Ps. 45:16) wisdom, and they shall be kings 



50 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

and priests and reign on the earth (Rev. 5:9-10). 

List the blessings of Joseph, from Jacob, his 
father, who types Jehovah: " The blessings of thy 
father, even by the God of thy father, Who shall 
help thee, and by the Almighty, Who shall bless 
thee with the blessings of heaven above, blessings 
of the deep that coucheth beneath, blessings of the 
breasts and of the womb; blessings that have pre- 
vailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto 
the utmost bounds of the everlasting hills [the 
Rocky Mountains] ; they shall be upon the head of 
Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that 
was separate from his brethren." (Gen. 49:25-27.) 

List the blessings of Jesus, from Jehovah, His 
Father: "And I saw, and heard a voice of many 
angels, in a circle of the throne, and of the living 
ones, and of the elders; and the number of them 
was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thou- 
sands, saying with a loud voice, Worthy is that Lamb 
[Mary's glorified Lamb] which was killed to receive 
the power, and wealth, and wisdom, and strength, 
and honor, and glory, and blessing. And every cre- 
ated thing which is in the heaven, and on the earth, 
and under the earth, and in the sea, and all things in 
them; all I heard saying, To Him who sits on the 
throne, and to the Lamb, be the blessing, and the 
honor, and the glory, and the might, for the Ages 
of the Ages. And the four living ones said, Amen. 
And the elders fell down and did homage." (Rev. 
5:11-14, Diaglot). 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 51 

Division of the Land of Canaan Among the 
TrihEs, in Type and Antitype. 
In Exodus 19 :i-6 we find that in the third month 
after God led the children of Israel out of Egypt 
He organized them into a kingdom, and afterward 
divided the land of Canaan to them by "lot" (Acts 
13:19), for an inheritance for about 450 years. 
After that He gave them judges till Samuel the 
prophet; then they clamored for a king to go in 
and out before them and fight their battles for 
them. After that God gave them kings for 513 
years, till they were carried captives to Babylon 
and their kingdom overturned in 606 B. C. by 
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. God had prom- 
ised to take away their tin and dross, and restore 
their counselors and judges as at the first, and they 
should be called "A city of righteousness, a faithful 
town" (Isa. 1 :26). But first they were to be scat- 
tered among the Gentiles (Luke 1 124) till the times 
(years) of the Gentiles should be fulfilled (1914) 
and God would take out from among the Gentiles 
"a people for His name" (Acts 15:16-17), to be 
immortalized kings and priests of Israel when re- 
stored (Rev. 5:9-10; 20:4-6). The restoration of 
all Israel, both living and dead, the rebuilding of 
the grand Temple at Jerusalem, and the division 
of the land (Ex. 19:6; Jer. 31:31-40; Ezek. 16:36-37, 
46-48; Dan. 12; Rom. 11 :i 2-16, and especially Acts 
15:16-17), are most vividly and beautifully set 
forth in the above scriptures cited, and many more 
which space forbids in this work. 



52 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

"The Marriage of The Lamb." (Rev. 19:7.) 
There is a vast difference between the marriage 
of the Lamb and the marriage supper of the Lamb. 
The Spirit of God uses the symbol of a marriage, 
that with which we are all familiar, to portray to 
the mind that most blessed relationship of Christ 
and the glorified Church in future kingdom work 
in a sin-wrecked world. It uses the symbol of a 
marriage supper to convey to the mind the "glad 
tidings of great joy which shall be to all people" 
when all the world is invited by "the Spirit and 
the Bride " to come and drink of the water of life 
freely (Rev. 22:17). Life and salvation for the 
whole race of Adam is symbolized by "a river of 
water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of 
the throne of God and the Lamb" (Rev. 22:1). 
This water of life is spoken of by the Saviour as a 
"well of water, springing up into everlasting life" 
(John 4:14), in each member of the 144,000, the 
Bride class. These 144,000 wells of the water of 
life will produce the 'fountain" of the water of 
life, to be opened up to the " house of David and 
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and un- 
cleanness" (Zech. 13:1). This "fountain for sin 
and uncleanness" will continue to flow on down 
through a thousand years, swelling into a mighty 
river at the end of the Millennial Reign of Christ 
and the glorified Church. "And he showed me a 
river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding 
out of the throne of God and the Lamb." (Rev. 
22:1.) 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 53 

(Tune : "The Cleansing Wave.") 

Oh, I'm so glad to me He *s shown 

This river deep and wide! 
'Twill flow from out the Great White Throne, 

Through Christ and His dear Bride. 

Chorus. 
The Spirit and the Bride say, Come, 
And "whosoever will" may come. 
This crystal river of free grace 
Will flow for all the dying race. 

This cleansing river y deep and wide, 
This world will sometime know, 

And how the ' 'fountain ' ' was supplied 
From "well-springs" here below. 

For cleansing shall the river be, 

While ages come and go, 
Till all the world so cursed with sin 

Is washed "as white as snow." 

The "ransomed" from the tomb shall sing, 

Without a broken chord ; 
The universe shall crown Him King, 

And bow before the Lord. 

" They shall be abundantly satisfied with the 
fatness of Thy house, and Thou wilt make them 
drink of the river of Thy pleasures." (Ps. 36:8.) 
"There is a river, the streams whereof shall make 
glad the City of God, the holy place of the taber- 



54 Jehovahy^ Finished Work. 

nacles of the Most High. " (Ps. 46:4.) " Thou vis- 
itest the earth, and waterest it; Thou greatly en- 
richest it with the river of God. " (Ps. 65 :g.) " Make 
a joyful noise unto God, all the earth; sing forth 
the glory of His name; make His praise glorious; 
say unto God, How terrible are Thy works ! Through 
the greatness of Thy power shall Thine enemies 
submit themselves unto Thee ; all the earth shall 
worship Thee, and shall sing unto Thee; they shall 
sing to Thy name." (Ps. 106 11-3.) 

The marriage supper of the Lamb, when made 
at the beginning of the Messianic Reign, is to con- 
tinue to a thousand generations; about only one 
hundred have as yet been born. It is to be " a 
feast of fat things" all down through the "Ages 
of the Ages" to the "Age without end." In the 
nineteenth chapter of Revelation we have a re- 
hearsal of many things enumerated in Revelation 
5:11-14, especially the great rejoicing and loud 
anthems of praise because of the marriage of the 
Lamb, which took place at the beginning of the 
thousand years. The nineteenth chapter of Reve- 
lation begins as follows: "After these things I heard 
a loud voice as of a great crowd in Heaven, saying, 
Halleluiah! The solvation; and the glory, and the 
power df our God: Because true and righteous are 
His judgments; because He judged [past tense] 
the Great Harlot, who corrupted [past tense] the 
earth with her fornication [in her 1260 years' reign 
during the so-called Dark Ages], and avenged the 
blood of His servants shed by her hands. And a 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 55 

second time they said, Halleluiah!" Now the 
question arises, After what things? We reply: 
After the things enumerated in the eighteenth 
chapter. The sum and substance of the things 
mentioned in that chapter is the judgment of the 
Great Harlot, who corrupted the whole earth in 
the day or years of her power, during the Dark 
Ages. Let me call special attention to the symbol 
used to represent her judgment and final overthrow. 
"And one strong angel took up a stone like a great 
millstone, and threw it into the sea, saying, Thus 
with violence shall Babylon, the great city, be thrown 
down, and shall by no means be found anymore. " 
(Rev. 18:21.) Please notice that in the sixth verse 
of this same chapter this great Babylon is to be 
repaid "double" according to her works. As else- 
where shown in this work, her "double" of 1260 
years could not precede the second advent of 
Christ, so it must of necessity be rendered to her 
after the second advent of Christ. Consequently 
her "double" must measure off a period of 1260 
years after the second advent of Christ. This takes 
us in our chronology 260 years past the end of 
the Millennium. This period of time then we find 
to correspond to the time when the great crowd, 
represented as being in Heaven (but actually on 
earth at Jerusalem, where the kingdom is "set up," 
established), say a " second time," "Halleluiah!" 
This "great crowd" are the people who came out 
of the Great Harlot while she was receiving her 
"double" and the seven last plagues were being 



56 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

poured on her. Her dominion was taken away 
from her at the sounding of the seventh angel 
when the kingdoms of this world became the King- 
dom of our Lord and His Christ, 1945. For the 
sake of perspicuity, we may imagine our view- 
point to be more than 1260 years beyond the 
sounding of the seventh angel at the time when 
the marriage of the Lamb took place, 1945. "And 
a second time they said, Halleluiah! And her smoke 
rises up for the Ages of the Ages." Smoke is a 
symbol of remembrance. The myriads of the on- 
coming Ages of the Ages will remember the tor- 
ment and the sorrow that Harlot system of wor- 
ship passed through during her "double/' and it 
will serve the purpose of drawing them to the true 
worship of God and the Lamb. "And the twenty- 
four elders, and the four living ones, fell down and 
worshiped that God who sits on the throne, saying, 
Amen. Halleluiah !' ' What a supper! What a 
"feast of fat things"! "And a voice came forth 
from the throne, saying, Praise our God, all His 
servants, and those who fear Him, the little and 
the great." "And I heard as it were a voice of a 
great crowd, and as the sound of many waters, 
and as a noise of mighty thunders, saying, Hal- 
leluiah! because our Lord God the Omnipotent 
reigned" [past tense]. We may rejoice and exult, 
and give the glory to Him; because the marriage 
of the Lamb came (in 1945) and His wife prepared 
herself [past tense]. "And it was given her [past 
tense, 1945] that she should be clothed with fine 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 57 

linen, bright and pure, for the fine linen represents 
the righteous acts of the saints. And he said to 
me, Write: Blessed are those who have been invited 
to the marriage supper of the Lamb. He also said 
to me, These are the true words of God. " (Rev. 19 13-9.) 

The Kingdom of God to Come According to 
the Scriptures. 
It is clearly set forth in the second chapter of 
Daniel that there were to be five world-wide em- 
pires, and that the fifth was the Kingdom of God 
to come. The first four were symbolized by a great 
metallic image — the image of a man. The first 
universal empire was Babylon, which was founded 
on the ruins of the old Assyrian Empire, which 
held sway over a very large portion of the then 
known world, but it was not universal. Babylon 
became a universal monarchy under the youthful 
bold Nebuchadnezzar, 606 B. C, and ruled the 
world till 538 B. C. Babylon was symbolized by 
the head of gold on the image. Babylon was over- 
thrown by the Medes and Persians, under King 
Cyrus. This second world-wide monarchy was 
symbolized by the silver arms and breast of the 
image, and ruled the world from 538 B. C. to 531 
B. C, a period of 207 years. By this time a third 
world-wide empire — the Grecian, symbolized by 
the belly and sides of brass (not legs of iron, as 
given in the A. R. Version) — under Alexander the 
Great, had forged its way through seas of blood 
and fire to the throne. It ruled the world from 
331 B. C. to 161 B. C., a period of 170 years. The 



58 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

Grecian kingdom was succeeded by the "iron mon- 
archy of Rome," whose kings are said to have 
worn iron crowns. This fourth world-wide empire 
was symbolized by the hips, legs of iron, feet and 
toes of iron and miry clay mixed. Rome, pagan, 
ruled the world from 161 B. C. to about 356 A. D., 
a period of more than 500 years. The kingdom 
soon after that fell into fragments like ropes of 
sand. By 483 A. D. the ten kingdoms of Europe 
weie the result. Pagan Rome continued in its di- 
vided state till 610 A. D., and from that on in its 
papal form till A. D. 1870, when the last vestige 
of temporal power was wrested from it, under 
Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy, the twentieth day 
of September. This date is so well authenticated 
that no historian of any note would attempt to 
overthrow it. The lease of power of the above 
our world-wide empires, Babylon, Medo- Persia, 
Grecia, and Rome, expired in 19 14, with the out- 
break of a world-wide war. The span of years 
allotted by Jehovah to these four great empires 
was "seven times,' ' as given by the prophet Daniel, 
as every Bible student should know. A symbolic 
"time" in prophecy stands for 360 years, each day 
of the year standing for a year. So we find that 
seven times 360 would equal a period of 2520 years, 
which, beginning 606 B.C., would end in 19 14 A. D. 
These 2520 years were referred to by Christ as 
"the times of the Gentiles/ ' when He said: "Je- 
rusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until 
the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled' ' (Luke 21:24)- 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 59 

These same ''times of the Gentiles' ' were spoken 
of by the prophet Mo&es in Leviticus 26:19-23. 
Get your Bfble and took it up for yourself. 

It is after the lease of power of these four world- 
wide empires expires, in 19 14, between this last 
date and 1945, that the Kingdom of God is to be 
set up, as recorded in Daniel 2:44. 

It is well to note that in tracing the history of 
these four world-wide empires there is a gradual 
decline Qr depreciation in the intrinsic value of 
the symbol used, from the head of gold oh the 
great image down to the miry clay found in the 
feet of the image. It is well to note also that 
England, the Saxons, Isaac's sons, are not, strictly 
speaking, one of the divisions of the Roman kingdom. 
Nor are any of the divisions of the Roman kingdom 
to be found in the Western Hemisphere. This will 
exclude, absolutely so, these United States. For 
England (Ephraim, oldest son of Joseph) and the 
United States (Manasseh, the second son of Joseph) , 
together with the Jews and the tribe of Benjamin, 
which cannot now be definitely located, make up 
the rank and file of the twelve tribes of Jacob, and 
are to be reorganized into the Kingdom of God by 
1945. This is the kingdom which the God of 
Heaven will "set up" — that is to be established on 
a permanent and immovable basis and is to be used 
of God to break in pieces the kingdoms symbolized 
by the great image. This is the kingdom that is 
to become "a great mountain" (government) and 
fill the whole earth. This is the kingdom that 



60 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

Christ taught His disciples to pray for, saying, 
"Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy 
name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done in 
earth as it is done in Heaven.' ' This is the kingdom 
the apostle Luke speaks of when he says: "The 
Lord God shall give unto Him [Christ] the throne 
of His father David, and He shall reign over the 
house of Jacob [the twelve tribes of Israel] forever, 
and of His kingdom there shall be no end. ' ' (Luke 
1:32-33.) This is the kingdom of which Jesus 
spoke, having returned from the "far country," 
Heaven, and having received the kingdom: "The 
Son of Man shall send forth His angels, and they 
shall gather out of His kingdom all things that 
cause stumbling, and them that do iniquity, and 
shall cast them into the furnace of fire ,, (not literal 
fire, but a "fiery trial, " that they may be purified 
and made white). (Matt. 13:41.) This is the king- 
dom of which Jesus spoke when He said to the 
thief on the cross, "Verily I say unto thee, Today 
thou shalt be with me in Paradise." And that 
other thief will be there also. And, thank God, 
Christ will remember not only those two thieves, 
but all thieves in the world, and all the ungodly, 
of whatever name or order, and give all one fair 
chance and trial for eternal life. This is the kingdom 
in which the twelve apostles are to sit upon twelve 
thrones and be kingdom rulers (Matt. 19:28). This 
is the kingdom in which the overcomers will sit 
down with Christ in His throne (Rev. 3:21). This 
is the kingdom of which the Revelator speaks when 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 61 

he said: "And they shall reign forever and for- 
ever. " (Greek, "Unto the Ages of the Ages, the 
eons of the eons.") This is the kingdom of which 
Jesus spoke when He said: "And I appoint unto 
you a kingdom, even as my Father appointed unto 
Me, that ye may eat and drink at My table in my 
kingdom; and ye shall sit on thrones, judging the 
twelve tribes of Israel." (Luke 22:29). And what 
more shall I say? Pen cannot write it, brush 
cannot paint it, type cannot print it, heart cannot 
express it, imagination cannot measure it; eternity 
is too short to unfold the ineffable glory. Halle- 
luiah! Worthy is the Lamb. 

When Will the Kingdom Be $ET Up? 
"In the days of these kings shall the God of 
Heaven [not Christ] set up a kingdom, which shall 
never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty 
thereof be left to another people ; but it shall break 
in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it 
shall stand forever." (Dan. 2:44.) The prayer 
Christ taught His disciples shows that the kingdom 
belongs to "Our Father in Heaven." Has the God 
of Heaven given us the exact year, month, and 
day of the month when the prayer Christ taught 
His disciples will be answered? We reply, Yes. 
It is now the privilege of all who were sealed with 
the Holy Spirit in 1914, just before the outbreak 
of the world-wide war (Rev. 7) to know when the 
kingdom will be fully established. Please do not 
pass this statement by as an assertion of egotism, 
but follow the writers, and you will rejoice with 



62 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

joy unspeakable and full of glory. Our Father has 
given us three cycles of years in the twelfth chapter 
of Daniel by which we can locate definitely the year, 
the month, and the day of the month when the 
kingdom will be fully established. There has been 
so much speculation on this matter of the setting 
up of the kingdom that no doubt most of the readers 
of this article will regard this as speculation also. 
But wait. Do not condemn before you hear and 
prove these statements false or true. 

As said above, there are three cycles, and only 
three, given us in the whole Bible which definitely 
locate the full establishment of the kingdom. The 
reader may be as familiar with these three cycles 
(in Daniel 12) as the writers are; but if we are ig- 
norant of the date from which to compute the 
cycles, we will be ignorant of the time when this 
kingdom is to be "set up." Most Bible expositors 
are ignorant of the date from which to compute 
the 1260 year days, or time, times, and a half time 
of Daniel 12:7. They set certain date for the be- 
ginning of the 1260 days, and then in the next 
breath overthrow them. One illustration of this 
will suffice : 

il The final rejection of the Pope as the ruler over 
Rome and the Papal States of Italy, by the Pope's 
subjects and the king of Italy, A. D. i87 r , by which 
Antichrist is left without the slightest temporal au- 
thority." (Pastor Russell, in "The Time Is at 
Hand," page 356, par. 5.) 

Please note most carefully that the above author 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 63 

gives 1870 as the date of the "final overthrow." 
Please hold this date firmly in mind till I quote 
another paragraph from the same author: 

" Measuring back 1260 years from 1799 would 
bring us to A. D. 539, where we shall show the 
Papal power began." ("Thy Kingdom Come," page 
69, par. 1.) 

Why in the name of reason did not the Pastor, 
after having established 1870 as the true date of 
the final overthrow, measure back from that date, 
and not 1799? "Dead flies cause the perfume of 
the apothecary to stink and send forth an evil 
odor. " (Bccles. 10:1.) If the trumpet give an un- 
certain sound, who can prepare for the battle? 
Where doctors disagree, who shall rightly decide 
as to whether the poor sheep are getting food or 
poison? When doctors of divinity blow hot and 
then cold, will not the condition be a "lukewarm'' 
condition, which the Master has declared He will 
"vomit" out of His stomach? 

The date 1870, when the so-called Papal Hier- 
archy was finally overthrown, is the correct date 
from which to measure off the cycle of 1260 days. 
This being true, we measure back 1260 years and 
it brings us to A. D. 610. This is the date from 
which to compute all three of the cycles in Daniel 12. 
The three cycles are 1260 — 1290 — 1335, years, on 
the year-day principle. Now let us compute for- 
ward from A. D. 610. We find the result to be as 
follows: A. D. 610, add 1260, equals 1870. A. D. 
610, add 1290, equals 1900. A. D. 610, add 1335, 



64 Jehovah's Finished Work, 

equals 1945, the end of the last cycle given, which 
brings us to the resurrection. "But go thou thy way 
till the end be, for thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot 
at the end of the days." Any dates fixing the second 
presence of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 
prior to A. D. 1945 are purely speculative, and not 
in harmony with the Word of God, and show most 
conclusively that such time-setters are still in 
confusion. The date 19 14 was not the end of the 
Gospel Age, but the end of the Gentile times. The 
long cycle of 2520 years which began 606 B. C. 
and which marks the beginning of Gentile rule, 
and ends in 1914, has no more to do with the three 
cycles above mentioned than the Kaiser has to 
do with making peace. 

The " marriage of the Lamb" can not be con- 
summated till after the harvest of the Age is done 
and the gleaning is ended. We have been taught 
that the main body of the Church was resurrected 
in 1878, and the "left-over ones" are yet to be 
resurrected. This is not in harmbhy with the 
Word oif God. There is not a thimbleful of truth 
in it. When the espoused virgin is married to 
Christ, it will all be done at once, and not in partial 
marriages, some in 1878 and some in 1918. "In 
the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when 
he shall begin to sound ["may be about to sound/' 
Dia.], the mystery of God should he finished. " (Rev. 
10:7.) "Pastor Russell was the seventh angel. " (" The 
Finished Mystery," page 169, par. 6.) On page 72 
of the same book, at the bottom of the page, it is 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 65 

asserted that the " mystery' ' will end in 191 8. All 
this is speculation — the teaching of "foolish vir- 
gins''; with no oil in their vessels, their lamps 
are going out. 

The mystery ends before the seventh angel 
sounds. Just how long befdre we are not told. 
Therefore the seventh angel types the Mellennial 
Age after the Kingdom of God is "set up," fully es- 
tablished. The proof of this is what the seventh 
angel says when he sounds. "And the seventh 
angel sounded his trumpet; and there were loud 
voices in Heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world 
has become our Lord's and His Christ' s y and He 
shall reign for the Ages of the Ages. " (Rev. 1 1 115.) 
The seventh angel has not sounded yet, nor will 
he sound till the end of the Harvest Age, 1945. 
We have been told in "Scripture Studies" that 
Christ the Harvest Reaper has been present ever 
since 1878, gathering the golden grain into the 
heavenly garner beyond the veil, and those who 
have passed beyond the veil are still engaged in 
harvest work this side the veil. This is the very 
taproot of Spiritualism. No the fact is that 
Christ does not do the reaping at all, nor is He 
now present. Proof: "The harvest is the end of 
the world ["the consummation of the Age," A. R. 
Ver.], and the reapers are the angels. " (Matt. 13 139.) 
"The Son of Man shall send forth His angels, and 
shall gather together His elect from the four winds, 
from one end of Heaven to the other. ' ' (Matt. 24 13 1 .) 



66 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

The Rksurrecteon Is Not the Harvest. 

The proof of this is that Christ raises the dead, 
and changes the living saints, and this work is all 
done at the same time (i Thes. 4:16). Jesus says: 
"I am the resurrection and the life." The angels 
have nothing to do with the resurrection of the 
dead or the changing of the living. Their work 
applies to the living saints a'nd tares. They make 
the separation of the wheat and tares previous to 
the resurrection. The angels gather the wheat 
(the " elect") into the "barn" condition, a place of 
safety from the wind and storm, and the "tares" 
into "bundles," that they may be burned — not 
literally, but be purified by suffering "loss." 

" The harvest is the consummation of the Age." 
Was the Gospel Age consummated in 1878 or 1914, 
as per Brother Russell? Most certainly not. But 
it will be in 1945, as elsewhere shown in this book. 
The living saints will need a "land of Goshen" 
somewhere during the "time of Jacob's trouble"; 
it may be in the land of Palestine, at or near Je- 
rusalem. In that "time of trouble, such as never 
was since there was a nation," "he that dwelleth 
in the secret place of the Most High shall abide 
under the shadow of the Almighty" (Ps. 91; read 
all). In the end of the Jewish Age, the twelve 
apostles, and the seventy, and about five hundred 
brethren were harvested out of that typical people ; 
but that had nothing to do with the resurrection. 
Still, Jesus said: "The fields are white to the 
harvest." 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 67 

Dear reader, hear the Word of the Lord: "I 
counsel thee to buy of Me gold refined by fire, that 
thou mayest become rich; and white garments, 
that thou mayest clothe thyself, and that the 
shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; 
and eye salve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest 
see. " (Rev. 3:18.) Please remember that Christ is 
not "the chief reaper,' ' nor is He a reaper at all as 
Brother Russell teaches. We are forbidden to call 
any man on earth "master," "rabbi," or "father." 
"He that sowed the good seed is the Son of Man, 
and he that sowed the tares is an enemy." That 
pernicious doctrine of the harvest of the main body 
of the Church having taken place in 1878 is a "tare," 
and is not of the Father's planting, and must be 
rooted up. 

He uses the angels to gather His elect this side 
the veil, for the kingdom, and the angels to gather 
out of the kingdom all things that offend on the 
other side the veil. Angels and men, principali- 
ties and powers then being made subject unto 
Him. "And when He [God] again bringeth the 
first-born into the inhabited earth, He saith, Let 
all the angels of Jehovah worship Him." Jehovah 
has not yet brought His first-born back into the 
inhabited earth. Or, in other words, the second 
advent of Christ has not yet taken place. Proof: 
"He [Christ] shall be great, and shall be called 
the Son of the Most High ; and the Lord God shall 
give unto Him the throne of His father David." 
(Luke 1:32.) Has Jehovah built again the taber- 



68 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

nacle of David, and set up the ruins thereof, that 
all the Jewish people may seek unto it, and all the 
Gentiles over whom His name has been called? 
We must answer, No. How then can Christ take 
the throne and kingdom before there is one for 
Him to take? The penitent thief on the cross 
said: "Remember me when Thou comest into 
Thy kingdom. " How can Christ come into a 
kingdom when there is no kingdom for Him to 
come into? The kingdom cann N ot be established 
without the kingdom rulers. Christ's kingdom rul- 
ers are stijl sleeping in the diist of the earth, and 
will not be waked out of the sleep of death till 
they are needed in the kingdom — approximately 
between twenty-five or twenty-seven years in the 
future. 

When God brings Christ's "body," the Church, 
back again into the inhabited earth, He will bring 
it all at the same time. Any other way would do vio- 
lence to the figure of a birth. "Shall a nation be 
born at once?" Yes. Christ, the Anointed One, 
and Head of that nation, was born near two thou- 
sand years ago. The "body" is soon to be born 
and united to the Head, and come into the kingdom 
a full-grown man. The 144,000 kingdom rulers 
all enter the kingdom at the same time. Proof: 
" Then we that are alive, that are left, shall together 
with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the 
Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the 
Lord." (1 Thess. 4:17.) 

Pastor Russell taught us that the Church would 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 69 

be glorified or taken beyond the veil in 1914. Ever 
since that his blind followers have been setting 
dates for the Church to be taken home to glory. 
Some say 1918, 1921, 1924, 1927, etc., and one 
has placed it in 1938. All these dates are im- 
aginary, and all who look for "deliverance" at any 
of these dates are doomed to bitter disappointment. 
Let us not be wise above what is written. No 
prophecy of the Word of God is of any private in- 
terpretation. The anointed family of God is not 
to be in ignorance of the time when it is to be de- 
livered. "For yourselves know perfectly that the 
day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. " 
(1 Thess. 5:2.) 

Christ said that the gates of Hades should not 
prevail against His Church. The gates of Hades, 
the death condition, will be opened in the resur- 
rection, at the end of the 1335 days of Daniel 12, 
when Daniel will be raised from the dead. We 
notice that there are two classes in that resurrec- 
tion, some to everlasting life and some to shame 
and everlasting contempt. A short time or season 
before 1945 the earthly phase of the kingdom will 
be fully "set up" or established. The Turk will 
be driven out of Palestine, and the Jewish people 
restored there. The Temple will be rebuilt, in all 
its glory and grandeur, and Jerusalem become 
the grand metropolis of the world. Christ and 
His Bride will enter into that grand Temple soon 
after the resurrection, passing in through the east 
gate or door. Proof: "Afterward he brought 



70 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

ffle to the gate that looketh toward the east. 
And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came 
from the way of the east; and His voice was like 
a noise of many waters, and the earth shined with 

His glory And the glory of the Lord 

came into the house [Temple] by the way of the 
gate whose prospect is toward the east. So the 
Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner 
court, and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the 
house. And I heard Him speaking to me out of 
the house; and the Man stood by me. And he said 
unto me, Son of man, the place of My throne, and 
the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell 
in the midst of the children of Israel for ever. And 
My holy name shall the house of Israel no more 
defile, neither they nor their kings, by their whore- 
doms, nor by the carcasses of their kings in their 
high places." (Ezek. 43:1-6). 

The world-wide war will come to a temporary 
lull, when the great world-war powers will get tired 
of rolling earth's "garments in blood," and the 
"beast" and his "image" will take control of the 
situation, and the "peace and safety cry" will be 
heralded to the four winds. They cry "peace" 
now, but then they will cry both "peace" and 
"safety"; for the churches, which assume to be 
the ambassadors of peace, will have full control. 
For "one hour" symbolic time, or fifteen days 
literal time, the great peace bells will ring all through 
the earth. Beyond the ringing of these great 
peace bells, the "peace and safety cry," the "time 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 71 

of Jacob's trouble' ' comes, out of which he is to 
be delivered. 

The prophet Isaiah says: "I saw the Lord sit- 
ting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His 
train filled the Temple." The Lord, speaking of Je- 
rusalem, the metropolis of the New Kingdom, says: 
"Behold, a day of Jehovah cometh, when the spoil 
shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will 
gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and 
the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and 
the women ravished; and half of the city shall 
go forth into captivity." (Zech. 14:1-2.) When 
Jerusalem was besieged and taken by Titus (A. D. 
70), the whole city went into captivity. But at 
this time only half of it goes into captivity. "But 
the residue of the people are not cut off from the 
city." The reason for this is as follows: "Then 
shall Jehovah go forth and fight against those 
nations, as when He fought in the day of battle. 
And His [Christ's] feet shall stand in that day 
upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Je- 
rusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives 
shall be cleft in the midst thereof toward the east 
and toward the west, and there shall be a very 
great valley, and half of the mountain shall re- 
move toward the north and half of it toward the 
south. And ye shall flee by the valley of My 
mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall 
reach unto Azel; yea, ye shall flee like as ye fled 
from before the earthquake, in the days of Uzziah, 
king of Judah. And the Lord my God shall come, 



72 Jehovah* s Finished Work. 

and all the holy ones with thee." This marks 
the time when the Bridegroom and the Bride come 
"into the kingdom." This will be the twentieth 
day of September, 1945, corresponding to the time 
1870, when Victor Emmanuel wrested from the 
Papacy the last vestige of temporal power. The 
long cycle of 2520 years, beginning 606 B. C. and 
ending in 1914, marks the expiration of the right 
of Gentile kingdoms to rule over the affairs of this 
old sin-cursed world. It also marks the beginning 
of the time of the ten virgin kingdoms of Matthew 
25. It also marks the beginning and sealing of the 
"wise" virgins of that kingdom, and their testing. 
This article is not in harmony with prior views 
taken by one of the authors of this book (J. A. O.), 
but it is the design and ambition of the writer to 
drop all error and gather up all truth. "Wise men 
change their minds sometimes, but fools never. 
We understand that the sealing work of Revelation 
7, just prior to the outbreak of the world-wide war, 
is synchronous with the anointing of the Holy 
Spirit, by which the remnant or "feet members" 
of the anointed family of God, the 144,000, will be 
able to "know perfectly" when the "mystery" will 
be finished. "The Spirit searcheth all things; yea, 
the deep things of God." "Grieve not the Holy 
Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed to the day 
of deliverance." The above date, 1914, also marks 
the beginning of the time when the ' ' God of Heaven ' ' 
began to tear away the world kingdoms and make 
them as the chaff of the summer threshing-floors, 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 73 

which the winds (wars) carried away, so that no place 
is to be found for them any more, in order that 
the New Kingdom might be set up, and in process 
of time become a great mountain (government) 
and fill "the whole earth. 11 The things above enu- 
merated are some of the things the Holy Spirit 
is now making known to the "feet members.' ' 
"And he shall show you things to come. 11 il Ye 
have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all 
know it." "You have no need that any one teach 
you, but the anointing teaches you all things" — 
spiritual and divine. 

What Wiu, Be the; Manner of the Kingdom? 
It will be an absolute monarchy y in which "one 
new man 11 the anointed Christ Head and body, 
will be an absolute ruler. A theocracy , in which 
the natural, social, civil, financial, commercial, 
and Christian rights will be safeguarded, with 
pains and penalties inflicted upon all willful trans- 
gressors. Some who are incorrigibly wicked will 
have to be killed and remain dead for a long time 
in order to reform them, and then be raised to 
life again. "And it shall come to pass in that day 
[the Millennial day] that Jehovah will punish the 
hosts of the high ones, on high, and the kings of 
the earth upon the earth. And they shall be 
gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the 
pit ["dungeon," margin], and shall be shut up in 
the prison ; and after many days shall they be vis- 
ited" ["punished," margin]. (Isa. 24:21-22.) "See 
now that I am He, even I, and there is no god 



74 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

with Me. I kill and I make alive; I wound and I 
heal; and there is none that can deliver out of 
my hand. " (Deut. 32 139.) 

The kingdom will be the antitype of the ancient 
kingdom of Israel restored. It will be an answer 
to the question of the disciples of Jesus as recorded 
in Acts 1:6: "Lord, doest Thou at this time re- 
store the kingdom to Israel?" The Master told 
them that it was not for them to know at that 
time the seasons and times which the Father had 
put in His own power, but it would be given them 
to know it after the Holy Spirit came upon them 
at Pentecost. After that they were to be His 
witnesses concerning the kingdom unto the " ut- 
termost parts of the earth." 

In Isaiah 1:24-27 the prophet speaks con- 
cerning this kingdom as follows: " Therefore, saith 
the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, the Mighty One of 
Israel, Ah! I will ease Me of Mine adversaries, and 
avenge me of Mine enemies. And I will turn My 
hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy 
dross, and will take away all thy tin ["alloy," 
margin]; and I will restore thy judges as at the 
first, and thy counselors as at the beginning ; after- 
ward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, 
a faithful town. Zion shall be redeemed with jus- 
tice, and her converts with righteousness." 

Paul tells us, in Acts 13:29, that God gave 
them judges for 450 years, till Samuel the prophet, 
and then they clamored for a king, that he might 
go in and out before them, and fight their battles 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 75 

for them; and God told Samuel to make them a 
king, for they had not rejected Samuel, but had 
reacted God, that He should not reign over them . 
Then God gave them Saul, the son of Kish. So 
they had a line of kings, good and bad, for the 
space of 513 years, including the reign of Zedekiah, 
the last reigning king in the line of Judah, who 
was carried captive, with his people, to Babylon, 
where they remained in captivity till 536 B. C. 
This typical kingdom people with their city Je- 
rusalem were to be trodden down of the Gentiles 
till the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled, which 
times ended 19 14 A. D. The Lord says the wrath 
of man shall praise Him, and the remainder of 
wrath He will restrain. The warring world powers 
are now paving the way for the Jewish people to 
return to Jerusalem and rebuild their waste cities 
and their beautiful Temple. 

Israel, the house of Jacob, has been cast off 
from Divine favor. He has "hidden His face from 
them" for a cycle of 2520 years, dating from 606 
B. C. and ending in 1914, till the "times of the 
Gentiles be fulfilled.' ' Brother Paul speaks of it 
as follows in Romans 11:15: "For if the casting 
away 6i them is the reconciling of the world, what 
shall the receiving of them be but life from the 
dead?" Israel was cast off from God's favor at 
the end of seventy weeks, but is now being re- 
ceived back to God's favor, and by 1945 will be- 
come the head nation of the world, the earthly 
phase of God's kingdom. 



j6 Jehovah's Finished Work, 

Modern Historical Evidence, Re the Last of 
Au, the State Power of the Pope Sep- 
tember 20, 1870, AT IO O'CLOCK A. M. 
It has been elsewhere shown in this work that 
the Pope lost all his state power on the twentieth 
day of September, 1870, giving an unimpeachable 
date from which to compute the three great cycles 
of years — the 1260, 1290, and 1335 year days of 
Daniel 12. Running backward, with the 1260 
year days as a measuring-line, we find the so- 
called Papal kingdom was established in 610 A. D. 
Running forward, with the 1335 year days in hand 
as a measuring-line, we find they terminate in 
1943, September 20th, 10 o'clock a. m. This last 
date brings us to the end of "the time of Jacob's 
trouble" (Jer. 30:7). But he is to be delivered out 
of it, for Christ will then come into His kingdom. 
The prophet Daniel calls it "a time of trouble 
such as there never was since there was a nation, 
even to that same time, and at that time thy people 
shall be delivered, every one whose name is found 
written in the book." It is the Resurrection Day, 
"when many of them who sleep in the dust of the 
earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and 
some to shame and age-lasting contempt" (Dan. 
12:2). It is the time when the Lord descends 
frdm Heaven with a shout, "with the voice of the 
archangel and the trump of God," and the dead 
in Christ will rise first (1 Thess. 4:16). It is the 
time of the sounding of the seventh angel, when the 
kingdoms of this world became the Kingdom of 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 77 

Jehovah, and His Christ (Rev. 11:15). It is the 
time of which the prophet speaks when he says: 
"Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up 
to the valley of Jehoshaphat [east of Jerusalem] ; 
for there will I sit to judge all the nations round 
about. " (Joel 3:12.) It is the time when the great 
Judgment Day of the world begins (Acts 17:31). 
It is the time when Jerusalem will be encompassed 
with two hundred millions (Rev. 9:16) of armed 
warriors, looting and killing. For full understanding 
of this, read Ezekiel 38 and 39. 

Many modern historians, journalists, generals, 
missionaries, and ministers confirm our findings as 
infallibly correct as to the loss of all the state 
power of the Pope in 1870 A. D. On the 4th of 
September, 1870, Napoleon III. met his downfall, 
and later died an exile in England. The Empress 
made good her escape the same day. The 12th 
of the same month the Italians swarmed through 
the Papal States, bound for Rome. On the 19th 
battle was set in array against the doomed city, 
under General Bixeo. The siege began September 
20th, at 5 o'clock a. m., and Rome surrendered 
at 10 a. m. There and then the last vestige of 
state power was wrested from the Pope. In the 
conflict, which lasted only five hours, the Pope 
had 8,000 troops and 60 pieces of artillery, while 
General Bixeo had 11,000. The Pope did not like 
the resolute faces of those Italians with their bris- 
tling guns, and so surrendered to Victor Emmanuel, 
king of Italy. It is hardly a mere coincidence that 



78 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy, stands as a type 
of the true Victor Emmanuel of God, Christ Jesus 
the Lord, who will take full control of all the king- 
doms of this world, both civil and religious, on the 
twentieth day of September, 1945, according to the 
time cycles as given in Daniel 1 2 . 

The Pope acknowledged to Cardinal Antonelli 
his defeat in 1870, as follows: "I have been aban- 
doned by Catholic Europe, and I must yield. " (Lon- 
don Daily Telegraph.) Again the Pope breaks out 
in the anguish of his soul as follows: "Alas! Alas! 
I am abandoned of my children !" (Quoted by 
Elder W. C. Van Meter, Baptist missionary in 
ofome in 1870.) "Thus fell the temporal power 
R the Pope." (J. D. McCabe, in "History of the 
World," page 510.) Corroborating all we have said 
above and quoted, on October 2, 1870, the Italians 
voted to renounce the temporal power of the Pope. 
Total vote, 40,831; only 46 votes in favor of the 
Pope. ("Kings and Peoples," page 433-4.) Hear 
the decree of the Italian Government, November 
1, 1870: "All the political authority of the Pope 
and the Holy See is abolished, and will remain so. " 
(Abbott's "History of Italy/ ' page 619.) Hear what 
The Modern Review says: "Since the dogma of 
. . . papal infallibility, Catholicism has been bound 
hand and foot with grave-clothes. Judgment had 
already begun to come upon it." (Issue of July, 
1882, page 485.) "All the strongest clericals now 
regard the restoration of the temporal power of 
the Pope as hopeless." (London Telegraphy No- 



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vember 26, 1895.) General Klangler's address to 
the soldiers on September 21, 1870, is as follows: 
"Rome has fallen. " (American Encyclopedia, page 
412.) Cast your eye on that marble tablet in the 
wall surrounding Rome and read the following: 
"This tablet will record in after days the 2nd of 
October, 1870, when all Romans solemnly joined 
Italy, under the Constitutional Government of Vic- 
tor Emmanuel and his successors. The favorable 
vote was 40,785, and only 46 against it." (Dr. 
Forbes.) Hear what Pope Pius IX. said on March 
12, 1877: "It is already the seventh year since 

a usurping government invaded this Holy 

City [Rome], filling the universal Church with 
mourning. " "The Italian Catholic newspapers are 
in mourning. " {Christian Herald.) Till September 
20, 1870, the Italian people paid taxes and tribute 
to the Pope in the Vatican. Since then the Italians 
assess the Pope, and he is required to pay his taxes 
the same as any other Italian citizen. He tiks 
often been quoted as saying: "I am a prisoner 
in my own palace/ ' In St. James' Church, New 
York, Father Luke is reported as saying: "There 
is not a Catholic country now in the world; .... 
persecution is general throughout the world; .... 
persecution in Rome is worse than anywhere else. 
.... The convents of Rome are closed. The 
shrines of her saints are used for stabling Victor 
Emmanuel's horses. Never was suffering so little 
relieved. Who knows but we are nearing those 
days when the light of the sanctuary shall be ex- 



80 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

tinguished?" When one of the authors of this 
little volume was traveling the Central Illinois 
Conference as an M. B. minister, several columns 
came out in the Northwestern Advocate giving the 
details of the overthrow or wresting of the state 
power from the Pope. 

The authors of this little volume bear no ill will 
toward popes or cardinals, priests or Catholic people, 
or any other religious sect or people; for we must 
all stand together in defense of life, liberty, and 
the pursuit of happiness, or be slaves to the war 
lords of Germany. We simply narrate these his- 
toric facts that the millions may know where we 
all are on the great ocean of Time, and be able to 
see when the new order of things will succeed this 
world-wide war; when anguish and " distress of 
nations with perplexity' ' and "garments rolled in 
blood' ' shall have an end; when the "Prince of 
Peace/' the "Immanuel of God," the "Pilot of 
Galilee," shall speak again, not to that little rock- 
bound sea, but to the world-wide, tempest-tossed 
sea of humanity, His "Peace, be still." 

The New Covenant. 
The New Covenant is the sure mercies of David. 
It will not be made till the restoration of Israel 
to their "former estate" in the Holy I^and. The 
Psalmist of Israel speaks of this New Covenant 
as follows: "The Rock of Israel spake to me: 
One that ruleth over men righteously, that ruleth 
in the fear of God, shall be as the light of the morn- 
ing when the sun riseth, a morning without clouds, 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 81 

when the tender grass springeth out of the earth 
through clear shining after rain. Verily, my house 
is not so with God; yet He hath made with me 
an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and 
sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire, 
although He maketh it not to grow." (2 Sam. 
23:3-5.) It was not then time for the covenant to 
grow and bear fruit. The barren condition of that 
covenant was typed by the barren fig-tree which 
the Master cursed, because "the time of figs was 
not yet." It could do nothing but bear leaves. 
Listen to the Divine assurance given to David: 
"My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing 
that is gone out of My lips. Once have I sworn 
by My holiness, I will not lie unto David. His 
seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the 
sun before Me. It shall be established as the 
moon, and as the faithful witness in the sky. But 
Thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been 
wroth with Thine anointed, Thou hast abhorred the 
covenant of Thy servant [but only till the res- 
toration of Israel], Thou hast profaned his crown 
by casting it to the ground. Thou hast broken 
down all his hedges, Thou hast brought his strong- 
holds to ruin. " (Ps. 89 :34~39.) The above promise 
and oath types Christ, the seed of David, the Son 
of God. 

We find this beautiful truth set forth in 2 Samuel 
7:13: "He shall build a house for My name, and 
I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 
I will be his Father, and he shall be My son." 



82 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

Peter delares that Christ was raised from the 
dead to sit upon David's throne. His words are 
as follows: " Therefore, being a prophet, and 
knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him 
that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, 
He would raise up Christ to sit on His throne. " 
(Acts 2:30.) Matthew 25:31 declares that when 
the Son of Man comes in His glory, that then He 
sits on a throne. He cannot sit upon two thrones 
at the same time, so the evidence is conclusive 
that He is then sitting on David's throne. This 
truth cannot be successfully controverted. We 
add another text to confirm it: "He shall be great, 
and shall be called the Son of the Highest, and 
the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of 
his father David. And He shall reign over the 
house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there 
shall be no end. " (Luke 1 132-33.) The throne of 
David was not in Heaven, but on the earth. For 
David is not ascended into Heaven, but his sep- 
ulcher is with us even to this day. How then 
could he have a throne in Heaven? The throne 
of David was at Jerusalem. " Then Solomon sat 
on the throne of Jehovah as king, instead of David 
his fathet, and prospered, and all Israel obeyed 
Him. " (1 Chron. 29:23.) Now, as Christ sits on 
David's throne, and David's throne was in Je- 
rusalem, so the throne of Christ will be in Jeru- 
salem. It will not be some imaginary throne, 
somewhere up in boundless space, and no one 
knows where. It is quite evident that there are 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 83 

two thrones. One is the throne of "the Majesty in 
the heavens' ' (Heb. 8:1). When Christ ascended 
up on high, He sat down on the right hand of the 
Father's throne. In Revelation 2:21 Jesus says: 
"He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit 
down with Me in My throne, as I also overcame and 
sat down with My Father in His throne." In Mat- 
thew 19:28 Jesus told His disciples that "in the 
regeneration" they should sit on twelve thrones," 
"judging the twelve tribes of Israel." The Re- 
generation Age and the ages beyond that will be 
required to make all things new. 

In Daniel 7:27 we learn that the dominion, the 
kingdom, and the greatness of the kingdom are to 
be under the whole heavens, and not above them. 
And that all is to be given to the people of the 
saints of the Motet High. Notice that the kingdom 
is to be given to the people of the saints, and not 
to the saints. Christ and the saints take pos- 
session of it first. Jesus said to His disciples: 
1 'And I appoint unto you a kingdom, even as My 
Father appointed unto Me, that ye may eat and 
drink at My table in My kingdom; and ye shall 
sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. " 
(Luke 22:29-30.) This grand truth is further 
elucidated by what the prophet says: "Then the 
moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; 
for Jehovah of hosts will reign in Mount Zion [the 
earthly phase of the kindom restored], and in Je- 
rusalem, and before His elders shall be glory. " (Isa. 
24:23.) "Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the 



84 Jehovah's Finished Work 

whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the 
north, the city of the great king." (Ps. 48:2.) "Je- 
hovah hath sworn unto David in truth; He will 
not turn from it: Of the fruit of thy body will I 
set upon thy throne. If thy children will keep My 
covenant and My tesstimony that I teach them, 
their children also shall sit upon thy throne for 
evermore. For Jehovah hath chosen Zion ; He hath 
desired it for His habitation. This is My resting- 
place for ever. Here will I dwell, for I have desired 
it." (Ps. 132:11-14.) So far as we have gone, we 
see that the Kingdom of God and the throne of God 
are under the whole heavens, according to Daniel 
7:27. This is in haimony with the prayer Christ 
taught His disciples : "Our Father who art in Heaven, 
hallowed by Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy 
will be done in Heaven, so on earth." 

The Lord's "controversy with the nations" is 
now on, and it will not abate until they are over- 
thrown, and the Kingdom of God set up on their 
ruins. " Therefore wait y<e for Me, saith Jehovah, 
until the day that I rise up to the prey; for My 
determination ["judgment," margin] is to gather 
the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to 
pour upon them Mine indignation, even all My 
fierce anger; for all the earth shall be devoured with 
the fire of My jealousy. For then will I turn to 
the peoples a pure language, that they may all 
call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve Him with 
one consent." (Zeph. 3:8-9.) Down to the con- 
fusion of language at the Tower of Babel the whole 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 85 

earth was of one language. After the kingdom is 
fully established and the Spirit begins to be poured 
out on all flesh, the people will get the truth in 
the language of the Spirit. The confusion of the 
language scattered the people all over the earth, 
but the "restoration" of the pure language will 
gather the people of earth to Jerusalem to be taught 
of God. 

We have been taught that at the end of the 
Millennial Reign of Christ and the Church all au- 
thority and power will be put down, and at that 
time the kingdom will be turned over to Jehovah, 
that He may be all in all. But this is a very grave 
error. We find ample proof of this in Revelation 
20:7-10, where we are told that after the thousand 
years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his 
prison, and come forth to deceive the nations which 
are in the four corners of the earth, and how they 
try to capture the camp of the saints, but are de- 
feated in the war, and fire (not literal) comes down 
from God out of Heaven and devours then. It is 
the same kind of fire spoken of in Zephaniah, where 
it is affirmed that all the earth shall be devoured 
with the fire of His jealousy. It is the same kind of 
"fiery trial" that is now devouring "carnal" af- 
fections and desires in the prospective Bride of 
the L?amb. This fire is represented as "the lake 
of fire that burneth with brimstone," into which 
the beast an,d false prophet were cast alive, spoken 
of in Revelation 19:20. It is simply a "fiery trial" 
through which the nations must pass to take away 



86 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

their alloy, or tin and dross. They are to be tor- 
mented with it for the Ages (eons) of the Ages (eons) . 
We are not told how many ages (eons) it will take 
to complete the final consummation. We do know 
this much: The covenant which God made with 
Abraham embraces in it a thousand generations. 
"He hath remembered His covenant /or ever, the 
word which He commanded to a thousand genera- 
tions; the covenant which He made with Abraham, 
and His oath unto Isaac; and He confirmed the 
same unto Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an 
everlasting covenant/' (Ps. 105:8-10.) From Abra- 
ham to David there were 14 generations, and from 
David to the seventy years' captivity was 14 gener- 
ations, and from the captivity to Christ was 14 
generations, making in all 42 generations. By 
counting the generations from Abraham to Adam, 
given in the third chapter of I^uke, we find there 
were 20 generations. Adding this to the 42 genera- 
tions, we have 62 generations in 4,004 years. By 
dividing the 4,004 years by 62 we have 64^ years 
for a generation. Allowing the same number of 
years for a generation from Christ to the end of 
the Gospel Age, 1945, we have 96^ generations 
for the 6,000 years. Taking 96 generations from 
1,000 generations, we have 904 generations yet to 
be born. Now multiplying 904 generations by 64^, 
we have approximately 57,856 years in which the 
remainder of the 1,000 generations are yet to be 
born. No wonder the apostle speaks of "the Ages 
of the Ages" I 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 87 

In Revelation 20:6 those who have part in the 
first resurrection act as kings and priests, and 
reign with Christ a thousand years. But the 
record does not say that they do not reign any 
longer than that. That thousand-year reign is over 
the house of Jacob. In the beginning of that age 
the fountain is opened up to the house of David 
for "sin and uncleanness. ,, The fountain con- 
tinues to flow for a thousand years, at the end of 
which it forms into a river, flowing on through the 
Ages of the Ages for the "thousands of millions' ' 
of which Rebecca was to be the mother. The 
present Gospel Age is the age of "wells" springing 
up into everlasting life. "And he showed me a 
river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding 
out of the throne of God and the Lamb." (Rev. 
22:1.) The Biide of the Lamb is to reign with 
Him till the thousand generations are born — a 
period of near 60,000 years, till the final consum- 
mation is brought about, and the kingdom turned 
over to God, that He may be "all in all." Proof 
of this is found in the following scripture: "And 
night [not literal] will be no more; and no need of 
lamp and sunlight, because the Lord God will 
shine on them, and they will reign for the Ages 
[eons, Greek] of the Ages" [eons], (Diaglot.) Christ 
is now a God. When we see Him, if we are of the 
Bride class, we shall be like Him — we shall be gods 
too. There are to be 144,000 gods, when Christ 
takes His Bride. Dear reader, do you think that 
many gods can put down all rule and authority 



88 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

and power of the enemies of the cross of Christ? 
And do you not greatly desire to be one of those 
gods? 

Running parallel with the thousand generations 
as above given, we have God's "memorial," the 
the seventh-day Sabbath, the "sign" of His sanc- 
tifying and creative power. As we see it, so long 
as the stellar universe rolls on harmoniously through 
boundless space, so long will the Sabbath of Je- 
hovah stand as a holy symbol of His creative power 
and God-head. The moral law of the Ten Com- 
mandments is a summary of His Divine will as 
it exists between man and man and between man 
and his Creator. Among the positive proofs on 
this point, we call attention to the fourth com- 
mand of the Decalogue and to the following script- 
ure in Isaiah 66:22-23: "For as the new heavens 
and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain 
before Me, saith Jehovah, so shall your seed and 
your name remain. And it shall come to pass, 
that from one new moon to another, and from 
one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to 
worship before Me, saith Jehovah. " Under the 
Sinaitic Covenant, the Ten Commandment law 
was written on tables of stone. When God makes 
the New Covenant with the house of Israel and 
the house of Judah, He will write the law in their 
minds and their hearts. Then they will not teach 
every man his neighbor and every man his brother, 
but all shall know the Lord, from the least of them 
to the greatest of them. Those who are now 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 89 

resting in the " letter' ' of the law will then be able 
to look through the letter and behold the spiritual 
import of the law. After the New Covenant is 
made, the seventh angel sounds, announcing that 
the kingdoms of this world have become the King- 
dom of our Lord and His Christ, and that is due 
to take place in 1945 A. D. The Christ, the an- 
ointed Head and body, then comes into possession 
of the kingdom, having received it at the hand of 
Michael, the archangel, the ancient angel prince 
of Daniel's people, called in Daniel " The Ancient 
of Days," to whom Christ comes and receives it 
from him. 

All the ages [eons, Gr.] have a beginning and 
an ending, save one, and that is the Age [eon] with- 
out end, first spoken of in Isaiah 45:17, as follows: 
" Israel shall be saved of Jehovah, with an ever- 
lasting salvation; ye shall not be put to shame or 
confounded world [age, eon] without end" The 
length of " everlasting " in this text is shown to be 
the same as "world [age, eon] without end" "World 
without end" is simply a Divine comment on the 
word "everlasting." The second text is found 
in Ephesians 3:21: "To Him be the glory of the 
congregation [the elect Church — the Bride, the wife 
of the Lamb] by Christ Jesus to all the generations 
[a thousand generations] of the Age [eon] of the 
Ages [eons]. Amen." Here the Age of the Ages 
is shown to be the Age "without end." It takes 
all the ages but the Age without end to gather all 
things into Christ, the Anointed One. The apostle 



90 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

Peter speaks of this final consummation as follows: 
" Having made known unto us [the Bride class] 
the secret of His will, according to His own benevo- 
lent design, which He previously purposed in Him- 
self; in regard to an administration of the fullness 
of the appointed times to reunite all things under 
one head, even under the Anointed One." Christ 
means "Anointed," and He was not the Anointed 
One till at His baptism at Jordan; therefore there 
was no Christ previous to that anointing. Christ 
had no prior existence. He was the second Adam 
on the natural plane, but had no wife on that plane. 
The first Adam had to have a "deep sleep" come 
upon him before he got his wife, and then his wife 
was taken from his side. In like manner the 
second Adam had to pass down into the "deep 
sleep" of death, and His wife was symbolically 
taken from His side when the blood and water 
flowed from His wounded side, which is to wash 
away, first, the sin of His Church, and, finalfy, 
"the sins of the whole world," in God's "due times 
or seasons." 

The second Adam was made of a woman, 4,004 
years after the first Adam was made. How could 
He be older than His mother? Will some of the 
Bible Students answer this? He was of the seed 
of David. Was Christ older than David? He 
was not an angel — not even the archangel, as Rus- 
sel^ism and Adventism assert. God's Word is 
against them. Listen, believe : ' ' Besides, He [God] 
does not in any way take hold on angels [high or 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 91 

low], but He [God] takes hold of the seed of Abra- 
ham/ ' the "seed of the woman," and Mary, the moth- 
er of Jesus, was that woman. Therefore the theory 
of a pre-existent Christ is a "cunningly devised 
fable," concocted by theologians, false shepherds 
that cannot understand, "dumb dogs that cannot 
bark," giving forth no certain sound, but simply 
growling when their bread and butter is interfered 
with, or their hope of gain is cut off. "The things 
in the heavens and the things on the earth, under 
Him; by Whom also we by Him obtained an in- 
heritance, having been previously marked out ac- 
cording to a design of Him who is operating all 
things agreeably to the counsel of His own will." 

When all things in the heavens and earth are gath- 
ered together in Him, what is left out? The Son 
of Man is come to seek and to save that which was 
lost. What was 'lost? The whole race of Adam. 
"All we ldke sheep have gone astray, and the Lord 
hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all" All the 
iniquity laid on Him kills Him, but guarantees to 
us an endless life. Halleluiah ! what a Saviour! ' * As 
in Adam all die, even so in Chrifet shall all be made 
alive." When all are made alive in Christ, how 
many are left dead? "For if while we were ene- 
mies we were reconciled to God through the death 
of His Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we 
be saved by His life." How many were recon- 
ciled by His death? All? Yes, all. "Who gave 
Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in its own 
times." (1 Tim. 2:6.) Then how many will be 



92 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

saved by His life? Only a small part? Oh, no, no! 
All, praise God! Oh! say many. That is uni- 
versal salvation. Call it what you will. Is it not 
more in harmony with the attributes of God — His 
infinite wisdom, almighty power, limitless mercy, 
eternal justice, and boundless h've — than the eternal 
roasting, scotching, and frying in a lake of literal 
fire and brimstone or the absolute annihilation of 
almost all the race of Adam, which would include 
lunatics, fools, idiots, and infants? How can the 
finite overthrow or defeat the plans and purposes 
of the Infinite? " Because the creature ["every 
creature,' ' margin] itself also shall be delivered 
from the bondage of corruption into the glorious 
liberty of the children of God. ' ' (Rom. 8:21.) " Who 
art thou that repliest against God? Let God be 
true though every man be a liar. ,, When every 
creature is delivered from the bondage of corrup- 
tion, how many will be left in it? ''And He that 
sitteth on the throne said, Behold, I make all things 
new. And He saith, Write, for these words are 
faithful and true. " (Rev. 21:5.) 

This is the fulfillment of a prophecy which 
spans all the "Ages of the Ages," beginning with 
the creation of man on the natural plane and ending 
with man on the spiritual or God plane; one thou- 
sand generations are comprehended in the span. 
We read in Genesis 1:26: "And God said, Let 
Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness; 
and let them have dominion," etc. Who are the 
"Us"? Jesus is one of the "Us" class referred to, 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 93 

the Head. God spoke to Him through Moses and 
the prophets, making known unto Him what He 
should say, and commanded Him to say it. Now 
what did He say? He declared He was the Son 
of God. What did He say to the two on the way 
to Bmmaus? "0 fools, and slow of heart to be- 
lieve all the prophets have spoken." I^et us see 
what the prophet Isaiah says about Him: " Be- 
hold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and 
shall call His name Immanuel." Immanuel, in- 
teipreted, means "God with us." God was with 
us by being "manifest in flesh/ ' What Jesus did 
in His flesh was just what God would do if He 
could make a personal sacrifice of Himself. " Thus 
saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Re- 
deemer, Jehovah of hosts: I am the first, and I 

am the last; and beside Me there is no God 

s there a God beside Me? Yea, there is no rock;I 
I know not any." (Isa. 44:6-8.) "Hear, O Israel, 
Jehovah our God is one Jehovah." (Deut. 6:4.) 
It does seem that such texts as these should con- 
vince the most skeptical that the pre-existent 
nature of Christ is only a myth of the Dark Ages. 
Only in the Divine plan of Jehovah, in His mind 
and purpose, did Christ exist as a God. Previous 
to His resurrection in the days of His flesh He 
was not God. He was not an object of worship. 
He would not permit Mary to "touch" Him, after 
His resurrection, until He had ascended to His 
Father and received His Father's approval of Him 
being worshiped as God. After His resurrection 



94 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

His Father " highly exalted' ' Him and said, "Let 
all the angels worship Him." Christ stands as 
Divine Head and Father of the New Creation on 
the God plane. Christ and the glorified Church 
are spiritual life-givers to the whole race of Adam 
on the God plane. It will require the "Ages of 
the Ages" to translate all the Adamic stock to the 
God plane. 

The Genesis account of this says He Jehovah 
"created to make." What is He Jehovah going 
to make? Christ and the glorified Church are not 
only gods themselves, but their mission for the 
"Ages of the Ages" is to make gods of the thou- 
sand generations of Adamic stock. Paul, in Bphe- 
sians3:n, makes this thought plain and beautiful: 
"According to the eternal purpose ["purpose of 
the ages," margin], which He purposed in Christ 
Jesus our Lord." Christ Jesus our Lord had no 
existence only in the Divine purpose and plan of 
Jehovah till after His birth, resurrection, and ex- 
altation to the Divine nature. Since the resur- 
rection of the Anointed Head there are two Gods — 
God the Father and God the Son. When the 
Church is glorified and exalted, by being united 
to their Head, and become "joint heirs," then there 
will be 144,000 gods plus the Father and the Son. 
The Church is to become Sons of God, "copies" 
of God's Son — hence gods. "When we see Him, 
we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He 
is," not as He was while here in flesh before His 
resurrection. Thus is fulfilled Genesis 1:26: "Let 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 95 

Us make man in Our image and likeness, and let 
them [the 144,000, with their glorified Head] have 
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the 
birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over 
all the earth, and over every creeping thing that 
creepeth upon the earth.' ' We do not yet see this 
most wonderful prophecy fulfilled, but we do see 
the first step taken toward its fulfillment; we see 
Jesus crowned with glory and honor, and when the 
Church is crowned with glory and honor, then the 
second step will have been taken. 

This is most beautifully set forth in the second 
chapter of the Letter to the Hebrews: "For to 
angels He [God] did not subject the future habitable, 
concerning which we speak. But someone some- 
where testified, What is a man, that Thou doest 
remember him? or a son of man, that Thou doest 
regard him? Thou didst make him for a little 
while [thirty-three and one-half years] inferior to 
angels; Thou didst crown Him with glory and 
honor; Thou didst subject all things under His 
feet; for in subjecting all things, He left nothing 
unsubjected to Him; but at present we do not see 
that all things have actually been placed under Him. 
But we behold Jesuis, on account of the suffering 
of death , crowned with glory and honor, having 
been made for a little while [thirty-three and one- 
half years, up to His resurrection] inferior to angels, 
so that by God's favor He might taste of death on 
behalf of every one. For it was becoming Him 
[God], on account of Whom are all things and 



96 Jehovah* s Finished Work. 

through Whom are all things, in conducting many 
sons to glory, to perfect the Prince of their salvation 
through sufferings. For both the sanctifier [God] 
and the sanctified [Christ and the sanctified Church] 
are from One [God], for which cause He [Christ] is 
not ashamed to call them [the Church] brethren, 
saying, I will announce Thy name [God's name] 
to my brethren [the Church]; in the midst of the 
congregation [the Church] I will praise Thee. And 
again, Behold, I and the children whom God gave 
Me [God is the Father of these "children," not 
Christ]. Since then the children have one common 
nature of blood and flesh, He also in like manner 
partook of these, in order that by means of His 
death He might vanquish him having the power of 
death, that is, the enemy; and might liberate those 
who by fear of death were throughout their whole 
life held in slavery. Besides He [God] does not 
in any way take hold of angels, but He [God] takes 
hold of the seed of Abraham. Wherefore it be- 
hooved Him in all things to be made like unto His 
brethren, that He might become a merciful and 
faithful High Priest in all things pertaining to God, 
to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 
For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted , 
He is able to assist those who axe tried." 

In Matthew we are told that when the Son of 
Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy 
angels with Him, then shall He sit on the throne 
of His glory, and before Him shall be gathered 
all nations, and then He will make a separation 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 97 

between the sheep (naturally good people) and the 
goats (naturally bad people). In Revelation 2:26 
we find that Christ's brethren are given authority 
over "all nations/' and in Revelation 3:21 they sit 
with Christ xn His Throile. In Matthew 19:28 we 
learn that Christ's twelve apostles at the same 
time sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve 
tribes of Israel. The apostles and all the over- 
comers are Christ's " brethren," and will be raised 
up and glorified together with Him. In Malachi 
3:17 Jehovah speaks of them as follows: "And 
they shall be Mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, in that 
day [Resurrection Day] when I make up My jewels, 
and I will spare them as a man spareth his own 
son that serveth him. Then shall ye [the jewels] 
return [from the place in the air where they meet 
Him (1 Thtess. 4:17) to the earth at Jerusalem, 
where the throne of Christ is located], and discern 
between the righteous and the wicked [the sheep 
and the goats], between him that serveth God and 
him that serveth Him not." Christ's brethren are 
the discerners, knowing what is in the hearts of the 
"sheep and goat" class, the world, and it is essential 
they should know, for they are still judges, priests, 
and kings. The "sheep and goat" class, the na- 
tions gathered before Him on His throne, are not 
the brethren of Christ, but before the brethren of 
Christ were glorified many of the "sheep" class 
gave a "cup of cold water" to the glorified brethren 
of Christ and they are not to lose their reward, for 
the glorified Master then says to them, "Come, ye 



98 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom pre- 
pared for you from the foundation of the world." 
This opportunity is extended to a thousand genera- 
tions of earth, till the one lost sheep (the whole 
world, which left the " ninety and nine") is brought 
back to the Chief Shepherd, and crowned with the 
powers of an endless life. Thus do we find that 
Jehovah looked to the end of His finished work 
and pronounced it good. Natural men look at 
the beginning of His unfinished work and call it bad. 
Known unto Jehovah are all His works from the 
beginning. Jehovah was looking at His finished 
works when (in Genesis 2:1) He said, "And the 
heavens and the earth were finished , and all the 
host of them." Let us briefly summarize this 
truth: "My counsel shall stand, and I will do all 
My pleasure." (Isa. 46:10.) And Bphesians 1:11 
declares Jehovah works all things according to His 
own will. And He declares in 1 Timothy 1 14 that 
He wills that all men shall be saved and come to 
an accurate knowledge of the truth. This is in 
perfect harmony with Christ's words: "And I, if 
I be lifted up [not simply on the cross, as the natural 
man sees it, but to the heavenly or God plane, als 
the spiritual man in Christ Jesus sees it], will draw 
all unto Me." And again^: "Except a corn of 
wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth alone; 
but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. " (John 
12 124.) For how many did Jesus, the corn of wheat, 
die? For the whole world. The crop is in the 
seed. What will be the crop? The whole world, 
drawn up to the God plane. 



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Jehovah's "Battle Axe." 
The Lord says of Israel or the twelve tribes as 
follows: "Thou art my battle axe and weapons 
of war; and with these I will break in pieces the 
nations, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms; 
and with thee I will break in pieces the horse and 
his rider; and with thee I will break in pieces the 
chariot and him that rideth therein; and with thee 
I will break in pieces man and woman; and with 
thee I will break in pieces the old man and the 
youth; and with thee I will break in pieces the 
young man and the virgin; and with thee I will 
break in pieces the shepherd and his flock ; and with 
thee I will break in pieces the husbandman and 
his yoke of oxen; and with thee I will break in 
pieces governors and deputies." (Jer. 51 120-23. ) 
Study over carefully the above specified things, 
and see them being fulfilled in the present world- 
wide war movement. 

Now let us ascertain who Jacob, or Israel, is. 
We have seen Jacob stands for the twelve tribes 
of Israel. Proof: "The word of Jehovah came 
again unto me, saying : And thou son of man take 
thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and 
for the children of Israel his companions ; then take 
another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the 
stick of Bphraim, and for all the house of Israel 
his companions; and join them for thee one to 
another into one stick, that they may become one 
in thy hand. And when the children of thy people 
shall speak to thee, saying, Wilt thou not show us 



ioo Jehovah's Finished Work. 

what thou meanest by these? say unto them, Thus 
saith the Lord Jehovah, I will take the stick of 
Joseph, which is in the hand of Bphraim, and the 
tribes of Israel his companions, and I will put 
them with it even the stick of Judah, and make 
them one stick in thy hand, and they shall be one 
in thy hand/' (Ezek. 37:15-19.) 

The tribe of Joseph was divided between Kphraim 
and Manasseh, his two sons. Those two half tribes 
settled in the British Isles during the Babyloijian 
wars. After having settled there, they could never 
agree, but were continually vexing each other, till 
finally the half tribe of Manasseh came over to 
America in the Mayflower. After settling here, 
they established the thirteen Colonies, and for their 
seal they had God's stone witness in Egypt, the 
great Pyramid of Gizeh, spoken of in Isaiah 19:19. 
That is the great seal of the United States. On 
our silver quarters we have thirteen stars and the 
eagle, with thirteen arrows in one talon, and the 
olive branch in the other with thirteen leaves on 
it — as much as to say, "Peace or war, take your 
choice/ ' In the Latin inscription on our coins 
("E pluribus unum," meaning "One formed of 
many," or all united in one, or as one) we have 
typed all Israel when restored to the Holy Land, 
the Land of Canaan, with their counselors and 
judges as at the beginning, and their reorganization 
into one kingdom. This one kingdom composed 
of twelve tribes is typed by the inscriptions on our 
coins, "In God we trust," having but twelve letters, 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 101 

representing the twelve tribes of Israel, and the 
twelve apostles of the Lamb. If we trust in God, 
we will believe and obey Him. God says, "Hear 
My Son," and God has given all things into His 
h^nds. For through obedience and righteousness 
He became "heir" of the world; therefore He is to 
have the heathen and the earth for His inheritance. 
And God hath appointed Him the administrator 
on the estate to which He has fallen "heir." And 
He choSe twelve apostles as administrators, to ad- 
minister on that estate. For they too are God's 
"heirs" and "joint heirs" with Christ to that es- 
tate. All who come into heirship to that estate 
must come in through the administrators. There- 
fore He said: "1 pray not for the world, but for 
all who shall believe on Me through their word." 
So when Jesus sent out His apostles, He said unto 
them: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the 
gospel to every creature. He that belie veth shall 
be saved [become "joint heirs with Christ" to the 
estate], and he that believeth not shall be con- 
demned," as unworthy of administering on the 
estate of the world during the Messianic Reign. 
This effectually demolishes the false claim of "apos- 
tolic succession" as held by our Episcopalians and 
Mormons or Latter-day Saints. 

It is clearly set forth in the Scriptures that 
Christ and the twelve apostles, and all who believe 
the gospel of God as preached to Abraham, are 
the spiritual seed of Abraham, who, when exalted 
to the Divine nature, are to deliver the whole 



102 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

creation from the bondage of corruption as stated 
in Romans 8:21. 

Through the President of these United States 
we offered peace to the Kaiser, and he would have 
none of it; so now he is getting the arrows. Peace 
was tendered to England in 1876, and she would 
have none of it; so we gave her the arrows, and 
gained our independence. Ephraim is the Anglo- 
Saxons, which means " Isaac's sons," or otherwise, 
"sons of Isaac." Drop the I and, we have the 
Saxolis. Twist it as you will and it means, "English 
Isaac's sons." 

The present world-wide war has brought these 
two half tribes of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, 
together, and "Uncle Sam" and Great Britain are 
giving the Kaiser more than arrows, and they will 
keep it up untill the old Kaiser's "dominion" is tak- 
en away forever, as also the whole of the Dragon 
Kingdom. 

"Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by 
a fountain; his branches run over the wall; the 
archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, 
and persecuted him [the English "archers" sorely 
grieved him in 1776, and shot at him, and perse- 
cuted him], but his bow abode in strength, and the 
arms of his hands were made strong [by the French, 
who helped us win the Revolutionary War] by the 
hands of the Almighty One of Jacob (from thence 
is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel) ; even by the 
God of thy father, Who shall help thee; and by the 
Almighty, Who shall bless thee with the blessings 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 103 

of heaven above, blessings of the deep that coucheth 
beneath [gold, silver, copper, iron, zinc, lead, coal, 
oil, gas, and what not], blessings of the breasts and 
of the womb. The blessings of thy father have pre- 
vailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto 
the utmost bound of the everlasting hills [the Rocky 
Mountains on the Golden Coast of the great Pacific 
Ocean]; they shall be on the head of Joseph, and 
on the crown of him that was separate from his 
brethren." (Gen. 49:22-26.) Is it not most won- 
derful? "Buy gold bonds and help to win the war." 
" And of Joseph he said: Blessed of Jehovah be 
his lands, for the precious things of heaven, for the 
dew, and for the deep that couchest beneath, and 
for the precious things of the sun, and for the pre- 
cious things of the growth of the months, and for 
the chief things of the ancient mountains [gold and 
silver] , and for the pi ecious things of the everlasting 
hills, and for the precious things of the earth and 
the fullness thereof, and the good will of him that 
dwelt in the bush. Let the blessing come upon the 
head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the head of 
him that was separate from his brethren. The 
firstling of his herd, majesty is his, and his horns 
are the horns of the wild ox; with them he shall 
push the peoples, all of them, even to the ends of the 
earth; and they are the ten thousands of Ephiraim 
[England, the half tribe of Joseph], and they are 
the thousands of Manasseh" [the United States, the 
other half tribe of Joseph]. (Deut. 33:13-17.) Is it 
not most wonderful? Nearly the whole world is de- 



104 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

pending on the United States to keep up the food 
supply for the millions of brave boys on the "firing- 
line" in the trenches on the frontiers. It takes 
"gold bonds' ' to swing the "battle axe" and blaze 
a highway through the nations for God's chosen 
people to be gathered back to Jerusalem, the land 
of their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the 
patriarchs and prophets, with whom Jehovah will 
make the New Covenant and establish His kingdom, 
when their grand Temple is rebuilt. This will be 
done by 1945. 

Ode to the American Flag. 

By J. A. Oppy, Siloam Springs, Ark. 

(Tune: "America.") 

1 All hail, thou glorious Flag ! 
Thou art no "filthy rag," 

Of Liberty. 
We love thy silver stars, 
We love thy brilliant bars, 
In peace or world-wide wars, 

Flag of the free. 

2 All hail thine azure sky ! 
For it well live and die, 

Of it we'll sing. 
Flag of the noble free, 
We pledge fidelity 
For evermore to thee. 

We have no king. 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 105 

All hail on sea and land ! 
11 The boys" (in blue) will by thee 
stand, 

Will die for thee. 
We love thy mounts and vales, 
We love thy hills and dales, 
Where love and peace prevails, 

And Liberty. 

Flag of the noble free, 
Immortal thou shalt be 

Till wars shall cease. 
Shine on, ye brilliant stars ; 
Float high, ye brilliant bars; 
Unscathed by battle scars, 

Grand flag of peace. 

Flag of the Kingdom Day, 
When death shall pass away, 

And earth be free. 
Soon earth's new day is born, 
Hail, bright Millennial morn ! 
All hail thy glorious dawn, 

Grand Jubilee ! 

Flag of Red, White, and Blue, 
Our love will follow you 

Where'er you fly; 
Be that to foreign shore, 
Or up where war-birds soar, 
Or down where death guns roar, 
And brave men die. 



106 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

7 From Maine to Golden Coast 
We are a mighty host 

For loyalty. 
All hail, Red, White, and Blue! 
Our custom we renew, 
We give three cheers for you 

And Liberty. 

Relation of God's People to Civil Government. 

" Render unto Caesar the things that are Cdesar's, 
and unto God the things that are God's,' ' Christ 
said. "Let every soul be in subjugation to the 
higher powers , for there is no power but of God ; and 
the powers that be are ordained of God. There- 
fore he that resfeteth the power withstandeth the 
ordinance of God. And they that withstand shall 
receive to themselves judgment. For rulers are 
not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And 
wouldst thou have no fear of the power? Do that 
which is good, anti thou shalt have praise of the 
same. For he is a minister of God to thee for good. 
But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid, for he 
beareth not the sword in vain; for he is a minister 
of God, an avenger for wrath to him that doeth evil. 
Wherefore ye must needs be in subjection, not only 
because of wrath, but also for conscience sake. 
For this cause ye pay tribute also [in gold bonds, 
or food supplies also, if the Government requires it] ; 
for they are ministers of God's service, attending 
continually upon thfs very thing. Render to all 
their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 107 

to whom custom ; fear to whom fear ; honor to whom 
honor." (Rom. 12:1-7.) Jehovah has His way in 
the whirlwind and in the storm clouds. He maketh 
the wrath of man to praise Him, and the remainder 
He restraineth. Beyond the "battle axe" and gar- 
ments rolled in blood/' beyond the shriek of dying 
soldiers and the charnel-house of the tomb, beyond 
the dark war clouds and the black horse of Famine 
that stares the whole world in the face, beyond 
the portals of Hades, there comes a white crowned 
Conqueror, riding forth conquering and to conquer, 
followed by the armies of Heaven upon white horses. 
And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a 
name written: "King of kings and Lord of lords.' ' 
His bugle will sound no retreat till He bears on His 
immortal brow all earth's diadems and reigns in His 
kingdom from sea to sea and from the rivers to the 
ends of the earth. All hail to the new kingdom for 
which Christ taught us to pray! 

"Thy Kingdom Come:, Thv Wiu, Be Done in 
Earth as in Heaven." 
11 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw 
concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall 
come to pass in the latter days that the mountain 
of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top 
of the mountains [earthly governments], and shall 
be exalted above the hills [petty governments]; 
and all nations shall flow unto it. And many peoples 
shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the 
mountain [government] of Jehovah, to the house 
of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His 



108 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

ways, and we will walk in His paths ; for out of Zion 
shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord 
from Jerusalem. And He will judge between the 
nations, and will decide among many peoples; and 
they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and 
their spears into pruning-hooks ; nation shall not 
lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn 
war any more.'" (Isa. 2:1-4.) The present world- 
wide war is preliminary work of destruction clearing 
the " highway' ' for the King of kings, preparatory 
to the establishment of that universal kingdom of 
the Lord Jesus Christ, under, not above, the whole 
heavens, according to Daniel 7:27. The streets of 
Jerusalem are again soon to ring with u Hosanna 
to the Son of David! Blessed is He that cometh in 
the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest!" 

When God sets up His kingdom and the Reign 
of Peace begins, then our great death-gun factories 
will reverse their operations, and will take our 
wonderful no-mile guns and the terrible engines of 
death and melt them up into plowshares, with which 
to turn the soil, and pruning-hooks, with which to 
dress our vineyards, and war shall be no more, and 
national and international controversies shall cease. 
The prophet of God, looking down over unborn 
generations to the present crisis, exclaims: "And I 
looked, and there was none to help; and I won- 
dered that there was none to uphold ; therefore Mine 
own arm brought salvation unto Me, and My wrath 
it upheld Me. And I trod down the peoples in Mine 
anger, and made them drunk in My wrath, and 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 109 

poured out their life-blood on the earth. " (Isa. 63 15-6.) 
Again the same prophet gives us another pen picture 
of the present world-wide dark night : ' ' One calleth 
to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? 
Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, 
The morning [of Christ's kingdom] cometh, and al- 
so the night [of the present world-wide controversy]. 
If ye will enquire, enquire ye. Return ye, come." 
(Isa. 21:11.) The world only has its finger-tips on 
the dark "night" the midnight of which will not 
come till half way between 19 14, when the war 
broke out, and 1945, when it will end. The world's 
midnight will comfe September 20, 1930, and after 
that it will get lighter, till dawns the perfect day. 

Jehovah will not only bring each individual of 
the nations to judgment, but He will also bring each 
individual nation to judgment. The following from 
the pen of the prophet is an appeal to the nations: 
"Come near, ye nations, to hear; and harken, ya 
peoples; let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; 
the world and all things that come forth from it. 
For Jehovah hath indignation against all nations 
and wrath against all their hosts; He hath utterly 
destroyed them; He hath delivered them to the 
slaughter; theirs lain also shall be cast out, and the 
stench of their dead bodies shall come up, and the 
mountains shall be melted with their blood. And 
all the hosts of Heaven shall be dissolved [" moulder 
away," margin, A. R. Ver.], and the heavens shall 
be rolled together [Catholics and Protestants unite, 
roll together] as a scroll; and all their hosts shall 



1 10 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

fade away, as the leaf fadeth from off the vine, and 
as a fading leaf from the fig tree. For My sword 
hath drunk its fill in Heaven; behold, it shall come 
down upon Bdom, and upon the people of My curse, 
to judgment. " (Isa. 34:1-5.) Near three thousand 
years ago the prophet of God drew aside the veil of 
futurity and looked down through the ages of on- 
coming centuries, and beheld the present "distress 
of nations with perplexity, and men's hearts failing 
them for fear, and for looking after these things that 
are coming on the earth," and exclaimed: " My an- 
guish ! my anguish ! I am pained at my very heart ; 
my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my 
peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound 
of the trumpet and the alarm of war. Destruction 
upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid 
waste; suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my 
curtains in a moment. How long shall I see the 
standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?" 

Jehovah's Controversy with the Nations Is 
Now On. 
"I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants 
of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts. Therefore 
prophesy against them all these words, and say unto 
them, Jehovah will roar from on high, and utter 
His voice from His holy habitation; He will mightily 
roar against His fold [or " pasture," margin, A. R. 
Ver.]; He will give a shout, as they that tread the 
grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. A 
noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for 
Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations; He will 



Jehovah's Finished Work, 1 1 1 

enter into judgment with all flesh. [Cold type can 
not describe the awful account the German Empire 
will be called upon to face in the soon-coming judg- 
ment, for plunging innocent nations into a world- 
wide war, and its diabolical agencies in destroying 
life, and especially innocent men and women, chil- 
dren and babfes.] As for the wicked, He will give 
them to the sword, saith Jehovah. Thus saith Je- 
hovah of hosts, Behold, evil will go forth from nation 
to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up 
from the uttermost [outermost] parts of the earth. 
And the slain of Jehovah shall be at that day from 
one end of the earth to the other end of the earth 
[this has not been yet, but it must be, for "the 
scriptures cannot be broken"]; they will not be 
lamented, neither gathered nor buried; they shall be 
dung upon the face of the ground. Wail, ye shep- 
herds, and cry; and wallow in ashes, ye principal 
of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of 
your dispersions are fully come, and ye shall fall like 
a pleasant vessel. And the shepherds shall have no 
way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape. 
A voice of the cry of the shepherds [those who are 
preaching for "filthy lucre," fine salaries, fine cloth- 
ing, fine automobiles, etc.], and the wailing of the 
principal of the flock; for Jehovah layeth waste 
their pasture, and the peaceable folds are brought to 
silence, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah. He 
hath left His covert as the lion; for their land has 
become an astonishment, because of the fierceness of 
the oppressing sword, and because of His fierce an- 



1 12 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

ger. " (Jer. 25:29-38.) The above is a very dark 
picture the God of the Universe has given us. But 
let us not faint by the way, nor be discouraged; for 
Jehovah will bring " forth judgment unto victory. 17 
The dark cloud has a " silver lining. " First the 
cross and next the crown. 

" Glory to God in the highest! and on earth peace , 
and good pleasure among men." Thus sang Je- 
hovah's angels over the shepherds of Bethlehem. 
" Glory to God in the highest!" came floating down 
the air; "Glory to God in the highest!" seemed 
ringing everywhere. Only a very few have caught 
the strain at present, but in the "sweet by and 
by" the whole universe will hail the grand anthem 
and shout, "Glory to God in the highest! Good will 
and peace among men" — all men; for "as in Adam 
all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." 

An Unfulfilled Prophecy of the Master. 
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the 
Kingdom of Heaven. [It is well to remember that 
the poor in spirit cannot have the Kingdom of 
Heaven before it is "set up," and when the kingdom 
is set up, it will be under the whole heavens, and not 
above them.] Blessed are they that mourn ; for they 
shall be comforted." It is a pity that so many good 
people, and well-meaning people, confine this state- 
ment of the Master to the present age, and further 
limit it to funeral occasions, in many instances, 
where someone has lost a dear father, mother, hus- 
band, wife, or a dear child. It has no limitations. 
Those who mourn now in the present Age, and are 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 1 13 

not "comforted" (and there are billions of them 
who have died without God and without hope — died 
in despair), will be comforted in the "Ages of the 
Ages' ' beyond the Millennial Age, even to "a thou- 
sand generations/ ' The first Age of the Ages to 
come is the Millennial Age, or Jacob Age, or House 
of Israel Age, or Anglo-Saxon Age — Sons of Isaac. 
"Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the 
earth.' ' We are well aware that this blessing has 
never yet been realized. I'f this blessing is limited 
to the present age and the ages of the past, the meek 
would be like angels' visits — few and far between; 
they would not be close enough to be good neighbors. 
We know that the meek cannot now enter upon their 
inheritance, but must wait until the Church is glori- 
fied and come into possession of their inheritance, 
the earth and the heathen; then the blessing of 
Abraham and his seed, who was to be heir of the 
whole world (Rom. 4:13), will come upon all the 
families of the earth (Gen. 12:3 and Gen. 13:29). 
And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, 
and heirs according to promise. Christ and the 
glorified Church of 144,000 first come into the in- 
heritance of the whole world, and through them the 
whole creation is delivered from the bondage of cor- 
ruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of 
God (Rom. 8:21). "For the creation was subjected 
to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of Him 
[God] who subjected it in hope." There will never 
be but 144,000 and one "sons of God." Christ is 
the first and Head of this "house of sons." The 



1 14 Jehovah* s Finished Work. 

whole of the " groaning creation" will be delivered 
into the liberty of these "children of God, "but they 
will not be "sons of God," but sons of Christ, 
and the glorified Church, on the God plane. Proof 
of this is found in Isaiah 9:6-7: "For unto us a 
Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the 
government shall be upon His shoulder; and His 
name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty 
God [His Father's name is God, and so He could 
have no other name than God after being exalted 
to the God plane; Jehovah speaks of His Son as 
follows: "But of the Son He saith, Thy throne, O 
God, is for ever and for ever" (Heb. 1 :8) ; and again: 
1 ' All power is given unto Me in Heaven and in earth, ' ' 
on the natural plane and on the spiritual plane also], 
Everlasting Father ["Father of eternity," margin, 
A. R. Ver.], Prince of Peace. And of the increase 
of His government and of peace there shall be no end 
upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to 
order and to establish it and to uphold it, with just- 
ice and with righteousness, from henceforth and 
for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will per- 
form this." Christ on the God plane is Father, the 
Church is Mother, and Jehovah is Grandfather. 
Did the prophet say too much when "He said He 
shall be called Wonderful 7 '? 

The Constitution of Christ's Kingdom. 

The fifth chapter of Matthew is sometimes called 
"The Beatitudes." It is the constitution of the 
Kingdom of Christ. 

God never promised to any of earth's inhabit- 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 1 15 

ants any other inheritance than the earth. Christ 
was God's first heir of the world, the seed of Abra- 
ham, and the Church is by faith adopted into the 
family of God, and become "joint heirs with Christ' ' 
actually when taken to the God plane. We must 
in all kindness dissent from the views of those " blind 
leaders of the blind" who assert that our inheritance 
is up in Heaven. Let me illustrate this grand Bible 
truth. We no doubt all remember the tragic nar- 
rative of how Jacob cheated his brother Esau out of 
his birthright, and how Jacob fled for his life toward 
Haran, and how at sunset he lighted upon a certain 
place and lay down to sleep for the night with a 
stone for his pillow. "And he dreamed, and beheld 
a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached 
to Heaven ; and behold the angels of God ascending 
and descending on it. And, behold, Jehovah stood 
above it, and said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abra- 
ham, thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land 
whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy 
seed ; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, 
and thou shalt spread abroad to the west and the 
east, to the north and to the south, and in thee and 
thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blest. " 
(Gen. 28:12-14.) Blind Pharisees have taken Ja- 
cob's ladder and turned it end for end, and put the 
angel at the bottom of the ladder and Jacob at the 
top, and tell us that our inheritance is up in Heav- 
en, instead of in the earth as Jehovah told Jacob. 
'Thou blind Pharisee!" In almost every funeral 
sermon we hear the dear sorrowing ones told that 



1 1 6 Jehovah f s Finished Work. 

their loved one has gone to Heaven, and is now 
happy with Christ and the angels in " The Home 
over there," at the top of the ladder, instead of at 
the bottom. 

Why not exchange ignorance for bliss, and folly 
for wisdom? The red man of the wilderness has a 
better conception of his future inheritance than 
many of our brilliant theologians, who pose as " mas- 
ters in Israel. " Pope's "savage" puts it this way: 
"E'en the poor Indian, whose untutored mind 

Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; 

Whose soul proud Science never taught to stray 

Far as the solar walk or Milky Way; 

Yet humble Nature to his hope has given, 

Beyond the cloud-capped hills, a humbler Heaven; 

And thinks, admitted to that equal sky, 

His faithful dog shall bear him company." 

But as an offset to this truth our opponents fly 
to Matthew 5:12: " Rejoice, and be exceeding glad; 
for great is your reward in Heaven." Well, that 
text simply affirms that the "reward" is in Heaven. 
It does not say that anyone ever goes to Heaven to 
get his reward. On the contrary, we read: "Be- 
hold, I come quickly, and My reward is with Me, to 
render to each man according as his work shall be." 
So we see that when Christ returns He will be here, 
and His reward will be here also. If Christ intended 
to reward each man by taking him to Heaven, why 
did He bring His reward with Him when He came, 
and then take it back to Heaven to bestow it on 
each man? 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 1 17 

" Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in 
the earth; how much more the wicked and the sin- 
ner. ' ' (Prov. 11:31.) Again : ' ' For the upright shall 
dwell in the land and the perfect shall remain in it. " 
(Prov. 2:21.) The thirty-seventh chapter of Ezekiel 
shows that the whole house of Israel, they and their 
children, and their children's children, when brought 
back from the dead, will be placed in their own land 
and dwell there for evermore, and that the taber- 
nacle of God shall also be theie for evermore. The 
prophet declares, with reference to the babes slain 
in Bethelehem by Herod: "A voice is heard in 
Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping; Rachel 
weeping for her children; she refuseth to be com- 
forted for her children, for they are not. Thus saith 
Jehovah: Refrain thy voice from weeping, and 
thine eyes from tears; for thy work shall be re- 
warded, saith Jehovah; and they shall come again 
from the land of the enemy. [Is the "land of the 
enemy" up in Heaven? Is th^is not proof positive 
that children do not go to Heaven when they die?] 
And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah; 
and thy children shall come again to their own 
border. " (Jer. 31 : 15-17.) "Behold, the Lord Jeho- 
vah will come as a mighty one, and His arm [Christ] 
will rule for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him, 
and His recompense before Him." 

An Egregious Blunder. 
As Bible Students, we have been taught that 
Christ came in 1878, and raised the sleeping saints, 
and took them into the Kingdom of Christ beyond 



1 18 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

the veil. Bible Students have heralded this heresy 
all over the earth. As we see it, there is not a thim- 
bleful of good Bible sense in it, nor a word of truth, 
though the good people who teach it believe it, and 
think all are blind who cannot see it as they do. As 
before noted, the God of Heaven (not Christ) is to 
set up the kingdom, and when the kingdom is set up, 
the throne of David is to be established then, and 
not till then. The throne of David cannot be estab- 
lished at Jerusalem tili the territory is cleared, and 
the Israelite nation restored back to Jerusalem, and 
their grand Temple rebuilt. So it is evident that 
Bible Students who teach that the resurrection took 
place in 1878 have no kingdom as yet to receive, nor 
any throne to sit down in, and neither has Christ 
the Anointed. Imagination is staggered when we 
try to decipher where the 1878 class went to, and 
what they are doing now, and what has been their 
work since 1878. It is not a little amusing to think 
of them being up in the "air" somewhere, flying 
around with nothing to do. But a short time ago 
the Bible House at Brooklyn solved a fraction of 
the problem, but only for one, and that one Brother 
Russell. As Jehovah had not yet got the kingdom 
fully "set up" and had nothing for him to do, He 
sent him back this side the "veil" to help finish up 
the harvest work, informing him that he coi$l d not 
be admitted to the kingdom till all the saints, the 
body of Christ w^ajs complete, and that Christ Head 
and body, the "one new man," would enter it all at 
the same time. It surely would be amusing to see 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 119 

the "feet members" come walking into the king- 
dom without any body. 

The Elijah and Elisha Classes. 

These two men were selected of Jehovah to type 
two classes of people. Elijah types the Church on 
the natural plane before the translation, and also 
the glorified Church on the God plane after the 
translation. EUsha types the "foolish" virgin class 
before the translation of the Elijah Class, and also 
after the translation of the Elijah Class. Before the 
translation of Elijah, he was anointed with the Holy 
Spirit, by which he worked miracles. This types 
the Church, by which it will be able to work miracles 
after its translation. Elisha was not anointed with 
the Holy Spirit till after the translation of Elijah. 
Elisha then received "a double portion" of the 
Holy Spirit, by which he (Elisha) worked miracles. 
The "fiery trial" of the Elijah Class begins with 
their anointing with the Holy Spirit, and ends with 
their glorification and exaltation to the Divine na- 
ture. The "fiery trial" of the Elisha Class begins 
with their anointing with the "double portion" of 
the Holy Spirit, and ends with their exaltation to 
the God plane, as others are raised up to take then- 
places, and carry forward the restitution work. 
None are exalted to the God plane till they are per- 
fected and in organism and have perfected a moral 
character. 

The experiences of the two men while traveling 
together type the experiences of the ten virgin king- 
dom class of Matthew 25 from 19 14 to 1945, when 



120 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

the "wise" virgins will be actually separated from 
the " foolish' ■ virgins and united to their glorified 
Head, beyond the veil, and exalted as kings, priests, 
and judges in the coming kingdom. Then Elijah's 
" mantle," or the power of the Holy Spirit, will fall 
upon the Blisha Class, and most wonderful miracles 
will follow in rapid succession, which will lead to 
piety in most of the people, but in some it will incite 
to ridicule and scorn. The scornful will say: "Go 
up, thou bald-head! Go up, thou bald-head!'* 
most evidently alluding to the fact that Elisha ex- 
pected to be translated as Elijah was, but failed. 
It would appear that Elisha was a bald-headed man, 
selected especially for the purpose of typing some- 
thing that will be wrong with the "foolish" virgin 
class, whose heads are more concerned in speculative 
dates about the translation than about having an 
abundant supply of "oil" in their vessels, and so 
fail to "go up" when the Elijah Class is carried be- 
yond the "veil" in 1945. Baldness is said to be 
caused by some sort of bacteria, or germ, that works 
in about the roots of the hair, killing them and caus- 
ing the hair to fall off. This most aptly symbolizes 
the "foolish" virgins, who rose and trimmed their 
lamps (the Bible), but took no oil in their vessels 
(their hearts), and went forth to meet the Bride- 
groom. "The former rain" types the Holy Spirit 
poured out on the Church on the day of Pentecost. 
" The latter rain" types the outpouring of the Holy 
Spirit "upon all flesh" and will not begin be to 
poured out till the Elijah Class is glorified. The 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 121 

" foolish' ' virgin class receive the Holy Spirit at the 
hands 0f the glorified Church, as evidenced by the 
fact that Elijah was the "head" of Blisha, and at 
his hands EHsha received great power, even a 
"double portion" of his spirit, to perfoim miracles, 
great signs and wonders, and inflict judgments upon 
the rebellious and scorers, as in the case of the 
forty- two children who mocked Elisha, and said, 
" Go up, thou bald-head ! Go up, thou bald-head ! " 
Only those who are anointed by the Holy Spirit this 
side the "veil" will be of the anointed family on the 
other side the "veil." While the "foolish" virgins 
are symbolically baptized with water, tliey are not 
anointed with the Holy Spirit, but simply Spirit 
begotten. 

There will be the "sound of a going in the tops 
of the mulberry trees" when the Elisha Class enter 
upon their work, under the direction of the glorified 
Christ, Head and body. The trial-day of this old 
world will then begin, and the greatest revival work 
ever known on this old globe will then break out, 
and the greatest house-building boom, and the great- 
est reconstruction work ever known to humanity 
will set in; for those who come forth from the tombs 
will need clothing, food, sympathy, and houses to 
live in, and lands to cultivate, and agricultural im- 
plements with which to till the soil, and they will 
be forthcoming; for nation shall not lift up sword 
against nation, neither shall they learn war any 
more, but they will melt their death-dealing engines 
into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks 



122 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

to prune the little Eden gardens that shall spring up 
all over the whole earth as if by magic. Elisha was 
plowing with twelve yoke of oxen when Elijah first 
spread his mantle over him, and he with the first. 
The twelve yoke of oxen may type the twelve tribes 
of Israel in the Millennial Age, and Elisha be one of 
the first to till the stubborn soil of the human heart, 
and prepare seed-beds for the words of Divine truth, 
till all Israel on the natural plane shall have passed 
the trial test of the Millennial Age. Speed on earth's 
new day, and crown our hopes with infinite joy and 
gladness. 

The Three Angei$' Messages of Revelation 

14:6-11. 

No doubt there has been more foolish speculation 
concerning these three messages than any other sub- 
ject in the Bible. It will not be necessary to outline 
what the multitudinous "sects" have had to say 
about the judgment hour of the first angel, nor the 
fall of "Babylon" of the second angel, nor the 
warning against the " beast,' ' his "image/' and the 
"mark of his name." Volumes could not tell it. 
What we most need is the truth, whether we want it 
or not. Sometimes we have to soar like an eagle 
with his eye on the sun, or dig like an earthquake 
for the hidden diamonds of truth. If we grasp and 
hold firmly "the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven,' 
we may "abide in the secret place of the Most 
High" and unlock many hidden mysteries. 

We get our correct chronology for the above said 
three angels' messages by carefully studying the 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 123 

fourteenth chapter of Revelation. In verse 1 we 
behold a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, at Jeru- 
salem, and with him the 144,000, the glorified 
Church, the Bride of Christ, having the name of 
Christ's Father [God] written in their fdreheads 
[minds]. Verse 2 reveals a voice of as many waters, 
and of a great thunder, and harpers harping with 
their harps. Verse 3 opens to our ears the new song 
before the throne of the Lamb, and in the presence 
of the living creatures and the elders. Next we 
note that no one is able to learn the new song but 
the 144,000 which were redeemed from the earth. 
Verse 4 reveals the fact that the 144,000 were not 
defiled with women — that is, religious "sects," for 
they are virgins ("wise" ones), and that they follow 
the Lamb whithersoever He goeth, for they are the 
Bride of the Lamb; having been redeemed from 
among men, being the first fruits unto God and the 
Lamb. Verse 5 declares there is found no lie in 
their mouth, and that they are without fault before 
the throne of God. 

Now let the gentle reader hold firmly in his mind 
that all the above enumerated facts are beyond the 
"veil" in the Millennial Kingdom of Christ, when 
He is King over all the earth, King of kings, and 
Lord of lords. In Revelation 11 115 the sounding of 
the seventh angel shows most conclusively that the 
kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdom 
of our Lord and His Christ. In Acts 17:31 we are 
told that God hath appointed a day (a 1,000-year 
day) in which He will judge the world, according to 



124 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

a correct standard, by that Man whom He hath 
foreordained, in that He hath raised Him from the 
dead. Before that Judgment Day work can be an- 
nounfced as hating come, Christ must be King of the 
world (which He will not be till 1945), have His 
kingdom rulers, the 144,000, on the Heavenly plane, 
who act as judges, priests, and kings, and also His 
kingdom rulers on the earthly or natural plane, the 
EHsha Class. We are firmly bound to the conclusion 
that this cannot be till after the resurrection. To 
affirm that the resurrection took place in 1878 is but 
cunning sophistry and deception, though not meant 
to be so. 

1 ' Foolish ' ' virgins all seem to have ' ' itching ears ' ' 
for such one man nonsense. " Wise" virgins will not 
study themselves " bald-headed " over such specu- 
lative " sectism." Is it not strange indeed that only 
that one man, out of all the "elect" who are declared 
to have been raised from the dead in 1878, has been 
sent back here to help finish up the harvest work of 
the Gospel Age? If these things are true, and the 
finishing of the harvest work so imperative, why did 
not Jehovah send the apostle Paul and, for that mat- 
ter, all the twelve apostles back here with Brother 
Russell to finish up the harvest* 

The First Angel's Message of Revelation 

14:6-7. 

We state the burden of this angel's message in 

the exact language of the Revelator : ' ' And I saw 

an angel fly in mid-heaven, having aionian glad 

tidings to announce to those who dwell on the earth, 



Jehovah* s Finished Work. 12$ 

even to every nation, and tribe, and language, and 
people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God and give 
glory to Him, because the hour of His judgment is 
come; and worship Him who made the heaven, and 
the earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. " 
(Diaglot.) As we proceed with this investigation 
we shall find ourselves abundantly fortified with 
Scripture evidence to show that the God of Heaven 
has never yet commanded either men or angels to 
preach or teach the judgment hour as having come. 
But right here we are met by our good and well- 
meaning Seventh-day Adventist brethren, who have 
for many long years had their heads twisted out of 
moral shape by their supposed prophetess, Sister 

E- G. W , declaring that the judgment houi 

message was preached by William Miller and his co- 
laborers, from 1829 to 1844, in every nation under 
Heaven. Now this for the most part is true. We 
have no reason to dispute or deny it. But we are 
led to ask if many good men have not taught that 
for truth which was absolutely false? We affirm, 
without fear of successful contradiction, that no- 
where in all the whole Bible can it be shown that the 
God of the Bible ever commanded William Miller, or 
any other man or class of men, or even angels, to 
preach the judgment hour message from 1829 to 
1 844 ; and furthermore, neither men nor angels have 
had any authority since the last-given date to pro- 
claim the judgment hour as having arrived. 

My misguided Seventh-day brethren are still 
heralding all the way around the earth that the 



126 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

judgment hour began in 1844, when they affirm that 
Christ left their supposed first apartment of a literal 
sanctuary up in Heaven and passed to the second 
apartment, and sat down on the right hand of His 
Father in His throne. If they would read Hebrews 
8:1, they would find that Paul saw Him sitting on 
the right hand of His Father in about 56 or 60 A. D. 
They might know, if they would, that Christ was 
born in the Holy, and remained there for thirty-three 
and a half years, and at His resurrection went di- 
rectly to His Father, the antitypical Most Holy. 
They might know also that the two apartments of 
the earthly Tabernacle typed two conditions : First, 
Christ in the Holy condition in the flesh, for thirty- 
three and a half years; second, Christ's brethren in 
the flesh for their natural lifetime, made Holy by 
the righteousness of Christ being imputed to them 
by faith in His name; third, Christ in the Most Holy 
condition beyond the "veil" (death), at the right 
hand of His Father, the highest condition of exalta- 
tion in the universe; fourth, Christ's brethren in the 
Most Holy beyond the "veil" (death), glorified with 
Him, joint heirs with Him, exalted to throne power 
with Him. But I must forbear, knowing that the 
time is near when some of my dear brethren will lose 
the "scales" from their eyes and see men no longer 
as "trees walking," but see clearly. 

It is now pertinent to stop and ask, On what did 
Brother Miller and his co-workers base their judg- 
ment cry message for 1844? They can not and will 
not deny that it was based on Daniel 8:14: "Unto 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 127 

two thousand three hundred days, then shall the 
sanctuary be cleansed. " By computing the 2,300 
days on the year day principle from 457 B. C, they 
found they would end in 1844 A. D. That 1844 
date was to mark the beginning of the cleansing of 
the sanctuary, or the true Church of Christ, from all 
its defiling errors. Now what led Brother Miller and 
his co-workers to go beyond his authority and preach 
the judgment hour message, when he was limited to 
preach nothing but the cleansing of the sanctuary? 
We reply, It was a misconception of his misssion and 
of the Bible truth contained in " Then shall the sanct- 
uary be cleansed/' His first error was to assume 
that the earth is the sanctuary of God, instead of 
the true Church of Christ. It seems that he might 
have seen his blunder if he had carefully considered 
the question, "How long to give both the sanctuary 
and the host to be trodden underfoot?" But he did 
not see it. His second error was to assume that the 
sanctuary (the earth) ' was to be cleansed by means 
of literal fire. So he declared the world would be 
burned up in 1844. Third, he assumed that Christ 
would make His second advent then, and that 
would prove that 1 844 would be the great Judgment 
Day. His fourth error was that Christ would then 
take His people home to Heaven, and the wicked 
would burn to ashes when the world was burned 
up. These, with many other errors he taught, were 
out of harmony with Bible truth and historic facts, 
as the most casual observer now knows. 

Brother Miller no more had a command of God 



*s8 Jehovah* s Finished Work. 

to declare a judgment hour message at that time 
than has the German Kaiser at this time, or anybody- 
else, for that matter. Well, then, one may ask, 
what good did his message do? Much in one par- 
ticular way: it served to wake up a sleeping, almost 
dead Church, and infuse new life into it, in view of 
the second advent of Christ, in the beginning of His 
Messianic Reign, when He and the saints shall judge 
angels and men. 

A Spurious Message Foretold by the Prophet. 
We find it in the tenth chapter of Revelation, as 
follows: "And I saw another mighty angel come 
down from Heaven [apparently so], clothed with a 
cloud [Brother Miller and his co-workers in their 
minds were "clothed with a cloud "], and a rainbow 
was upon his head [the rainbow part of the message 
called the attention of the people of God to the sec- 
ond coming of Christ, in power and great glory, 
which was not due to take place in 1844], an d his face 
was as the sun [it appeared so to the Seer of Patmos], 
and his feet as pillars of fire [typing the fiery trials 
of the true people of God] ; and he had in his hand a 
little book open [the book of Daniel, open at 8:14], 
and he set his right foot upon the sea [his mes- 
sage was to travel by sea] and his left foot upon the 
land [it was to go by land also], and cried with a loud 
voice, as when a lion roareth [so powerful was the 
second advent cry of 1844 that more than 50,000 
people left the various church organizations and 
united in the Advent movement] ; and when he had 
cried, seven thunders uttered their voices." We 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 129 

are not told what the seven thunders said, and so do 
not know; but we may conjecture a little and be not 
far out of the way. Seven is a numeral indicating 
completeness, or perfection. After the passing of 
the time for the I^ord to come, and He did not ar- 
rive, it was plain to the true people of God, and, in 
fact, to all people who heard that false message, that 
a very great mistake had been made, and people 
everywhere ridiculed the false message. 

"And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea 
and upon the earth lifted up his hands to Heaven, 
and sware by Him that liveth for the Ages of the 
Ages, Who created Heaven and the things that 
therein are, and the earth and the things that are 
therein, that there should be time no longer." Brother 
Miller and his co-workers declared that time would 
come to an end in 1844, an( i the world and all the 
bad people in it would be burned up then. The 
world and church people everywhere still laugh and 
scorn at the egregious blunder. The old planet still 
holds on in its orbit, the sun shines on, the silvei 
moon reflects its light, the stars shine on, the chang- 
ing seasons come and go, the flowers bloom as 
brightly and the birds sing as sweetly as ever. 
Strange indeed that the 1844 judgment hour criers 
overlooked the 1,290 and 1,335 y ear days following 
the 2,300 year days. Strange, too, that they did not 
see that the 70 weeks of years cut off from the 2,300 
years applied to the Jewish nation only, and had no 
reference to the world whatever, and that the re- 
mainder of the time applied to the " sanctuary" or 
true Church only. 



130 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

"But in the days of the voice of the seventh 
angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of 
God should be finished, as He hath declared to His 
servants the prophets.' ' Had they known what 
"the mystery of God" is, they would not have said 
God would burn the world up in 1844. People who 
are "clothed with a cloud" are liable to say almost 
anything, from the fact that what they say is more 
speculation than anything else. If the International 
Bible Students' Association had not been clothed 
with ; a "cloud, " they would not have made the mis- 
take of supposing that the Church would be taken to 
glory in 19 14, and have engaged so zealously in ap- 
plying "the point of the sword" to the nation that is 
spilling its life-blood to protect them in their lives, 
liberties, and happiness, and thus procuring to them- 
selves " punishments.' ' They will have to learn yet 
by a more bitter experience that the "two-edged 
sword" will not be placed in the hands of the 
saints till after the Kingdom of God is fully set up, 
as we have previously shown in this work. 

"And the voice which I heard from Heaven spake 
unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book 
which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth 
on the sea and on the earth. And I went unto the 
angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book 
[the prophecy of Daniel]. And he said unto me, 
Take it, and eat it up [digest it], and it shall make 
thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet 
as hon y." Oh, how sweet was the thought to the 
the Advent people of 1844, that on the twenty- 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 13 1 

second day of October Jesus would come again and 
take them all home to Heaven! But how bitter were 
the jeers and ridicule of their enemies who cried out 
at them everywhere : " Why did you not go up, you 
old bald-heads? What are you going to do with 
your robes now?" But the seeming wise ones of 
that day had a way of making the " bitter " " sweet." 
They said: "We have found out that we made a 
mistake of about six months in our chronology for 
the beginning of the 2,300 days. It took Ezra about 
six months to go from Babylon to Jerusalem and 
begin the work of restoring and building Jerusalem. 
In six months from our last date we will be taken 
up." But the poor blind guides did not go up then. 
Verse 11: "And he said unto me, Thou must 
prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, 
and tongues, and kings." Why did not the Advent 
people of 1844 see that after the world was not 
burned up as they predicted, there would be "many 
peoples, nations, tongues, and kings" that would 
not be reduced to cinders and ashes ? The ' ' f oolish ' ' 
virgin class of modern Bible Students are insistently 
repeating the blunders of the 1844 Adventists by 
speculative dates for the second advent of Christ. 
They still insist that He came in 1878, and that He 
comes a little nearer every time one of the "elect" 
passes beyond the "veil." This really means that 
a resurrection takes place eveiy day that one of the 
"elect" dies, or is changed. Their last date fixed is 
1 91 8, and that date of guesswork is as "sweet as 
honey" in their mouths; but it will be as bitter as 



132 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

wormwood and gall when they find themselves still 
here after that date has passed. So much for fool- 
ishness. As before shown, the proclamation of the 
judgment hour is not due to be announced as having 
come till after "the mystery of God" is finished, under 
the sounding of the seventh angel, which is after the 
kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdom 
of our Lord and His Christ. 

The Second Angel's Message 
followed the first angel's message, saying : ' ' Babylon 
is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made 
all nation: [during the Dark Ages] drink of the wine 
of the wrath of her fornication. ' ' (Rev. 14-8.) Baby- 
lon means " confusion,' ' having reference in this case 
to a mixture of state and church matters, spiritual 
adultery. As the chronology of the first angel intro- 
duces the judgment hour, it logically follows that the 
chronology of the second angel's message is in the 
Millennial Age. This is reason, logic, and Scripture. 
It is an axiom, a self-evident truth. To make the 
assertion that Babylon, which means "confusion," 
as applied to church and state religion, is now cast 
down, overthrown, is confusion confounded. Has 
confusion ' ' fallen ' ' ? Are we not now in the midst 
of more church and state confusion than ever before, 
and is it becoming more or less so? The so-called 
gospel of Christ is preached by nearly a thousand 
denominations, and in thousands of different ways, 
so that the poor dumb sheep know not whom to hear 
or follow. Has Babylon beqii thrown down with 
violence? Babylon is Babylon still, but Babylon 



Jehovah's Finished Work, 133 

is not cast down, destroyed, nor will she be till in the 
Millennial Age, as we shall presently show. Baby- 
lon will not meet with her overthrow till after the 
Millennial Kingdom is "set up." The following 
scriptures make this plain : 

"Reward her as she rewarded you [the saints, 
when reigning with Christ during the 1,000 years, are 
to reward her (Babylon) as she rewarded them during 
the so-called Dark Ages], and double unto her, ac- 
cording to her works [during the whole of the Gospel 
Age]. In the cup which she hath filled, fill to her 
double. " (Rev. 18 :6.) As she was fully established 
in 610 A. D., and was to reign for 1,260 year days, 
to the twentieth day of September, 1870, there is no 
possible chance or place for her to get her "double" 
of 1,260 years during the Gospel Age. It must come 
to her after the Kingdom of God is fully "set up" 
in 1945. Her "double," shorn of her dominion, 
"bound" a thousand years with the kingdom truth 
of Christ and the 144,000 saints, begins with the be- 
ginning of the 1,000 years of Christ and the saints 
over the "house of Jacob." All this time she has 
nothing but "torment and sorrow" given her. Her 
dominion was taken from her at the second coming 
(presence) of Christ. "Then shall that wicked be 
revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the 
spirit of His mouth, and destroy with the brightness 
of His presence" The system of Babylon is de- 
stroyed then, but the false principles of worship still 
remain, but without power to enforce them, for a 
period of 1,000 years. 



134 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

''When the thousand years are finished, Satan 
shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall come forth 
todeceive the nations which are in the four corners of 
the earth. " (Rev. 20:7.) Verse 2 says: "He must 
be loosed for a little season. " By being "loosed for 
a little season' ' we understand that his "dominion" 
or power is restored, to test him as to his persecuting 
spirit. But we find the same old dragon spirit is 
still there. The fact that the saints render to her 
"double" shows that the "little season" in which 
she is "loosed" is just 260 years, as it takes just 
that number of years added to 1,000 years to make 
her "double." At the close of her "double" "fire 
comes down out of Heaven and devours them." 
This fire is not literal fire, as many people suppose, 
but symbolic fire. They were then cast into a 
"lake of fire and brimstone." This is the kind of 
"fire" or "fiery trial" that the Church is now pass- 
ing through to purify it. It is then compared to a 
"lake of fire," because there are so many engaged in 
the revolt against God. It is called the "second 
death." The whole race of Adam died to righteous- 
ness in him, and lived to sin. The whole race of 
Adam must eventually, in Christ, die to sin and live 
to righteousness. This is the "second death," but 
it is not individual annihilation, or eternal non- 
existence, as some teach. "As in Adam all die [to 
righteousness], even so in Christ shall all be made 
alive" [to righteousness]. " Our God is a consuming 
fire" [not literal]. He consumes the sin of the sin- 
ner, and saves the sinner, not in his sins, but from 



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his sins. " Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He 
shall save His people from their sins." Fire and 
brimstone have a double signification. They are 
used in Scripture as purifying elements and as de- 
stroying elements. Symbolic fire destroys sin and 
purifies the heart of the sinner. 

We now offer the following scripture as further 
proof positive that Babylon, whatever that term 
may signify, will receive her "double" at the hands of 
the glorified saints, apostles, and prophets in the 
Millennial Age: " Rejoice over her [Babylon], thou 
Heaven [the new Heaven], and ye saints, and ye 
apostles, and ye prophets ; for God hath judged your 
judgment on her. ' ' (Rev. 1 8 :20.) Paul says the saints 
ate to judge the world. But he is careful to tell the 
saints not to judge before the Lord comes, Who will 
then bring to light the hidden things of dishonesty 
and make manifest the counsels of the heart. 

A Symbol of Babylon's Fall. 
" And a mighty angel took up a stone, as it were 
a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, 
Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon the great city 
be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 
And the voices of harpers, and minstrels, and flute- 
players, and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all 

in thee And the light of a lamp shall 

shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the 
bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more 
at all in thee; for thy merchants were the piinces of 
the earth; for with thy sorcery were all the nations 
deceived. And in her was found the blood of proph- 



136 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

ets, and of saints, and of all that have been slain 
upon the earth. " (Rev. 18:21-24.) So we seethat 
when Babylon is cast down, she will be cast down 
with "violence," as when a great millstone is cast 
into the sea, and that will not be till she has re- 
ceived her "double" at the hands of the saints, apos- 
tles, and prophets in the Millennial Age. 

The Jewish "Double." 
We have seen how God will render "double" to 
Babylon, and when it will be rendered. In a some- 
what similar manner has He dealt with the Jewish 
nation. He declares by the prophet (Zech. 9:10); 
"Even today do I declare that I will render double 
unto thee." This "double" embraced a period of 
1,845 years without "favor," from the death of 
Christ, 33 A. D., to the Berlin Congress of Nations, 
1878, when "favor" began to return to the Jewish 
people, owing to the fact that then England gained a 
protectorate over the Asiatic provinces of Turkey, 
through the diplomacy of Lord Beaconsfield (a Jew), 
who was then prime minister to the throne of Eng- 
land. The Lord had shown the Jewish nation "fa- 
vor" 1,845 years, from the death of Jacob to the 
death of Christ, 33 A. D. The prophet (Isa. 40:1-2), 
looking down the stream of time to the Berlin Con- 
gress of Nations in 1878, exclaims: "Comfort ye, 
comfort ye My people, saith God. Speak ye com- 
fortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her 
warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is par- 
doned, that she hath received of Jehovah's hand 
double for all her sins." Today we see the English 



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soldiers, under General Allenby, tenting on the hills 
of Palestine, paving the way for the return of the 
Jewish nation to the land of their fathers, Abraham, 
Isaac, and Jacob. In fact, the Lord is working 
most marvelously for the Israelitish nation, the 
twelve tribes. The two half tribes of Joseph, Ephra- 
im (England) and Manasseh (the United States), 
are now in actual possession of the land, and in due 
time the Jews will all be there. Brother Russell in- 
jected time into his parallels, and makes it appear 
that the Jewish people would all be back to Jeru- 
salem by 1 9 14. He afterward saw his mistake, and 
corrected it. He figured only 36 years for the Jew- 
ish people to return to full " favor" — namely, from 
1878 to 1914. He should have figured from 1878 to 
1945, the Resurrection Day, the ending of the 1,333 
year days of Daniel 12. This would give a period of 
67 years, the full time of " favor" to the whole House 
of Israel. It is then that the fountain is to be opened 
up to the house of David for sin and uncleanness. 
As Jehdvah showed the Jewish nation no " favor " 
duiing their " double," so God will show Babylon 
no " favor" during her time of "double." Babylon 
is " fallen" now, this side the Millennial Age, but in 
the Millennial Age she will be overthrown, cast 
down, destroyed. In this Age it is said of her: 
" Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and is become 
a habitation of demons, and the hold of every un- 
clean spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful 
bird. ' ' (Rev. 18:2.) In the Millennial Age it will be 
said off her: "And every shipmaster, and everyone 



138 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

that saileth any whither, and mariners as many as 
gain their living by sea, stood afar off, and cried out 
as they looked upon the smoke of her burning [not 
with literal fire], saying, What city is like the great 
city? And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, 
weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great 
city, wherein all that had their ships in the sea were 
made rich by reason of her costliness ; for in one hour 
is she made desolate/ ' In this Age she says : " Is it 
a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see 
mourning/ ' She lost all her husbands the twentieth 
day of September, 1870, and has been a " widow' ' 
ever since; but in the near future all her former 
husbands will come back to her and be married, 
with some who were not her husbands in 1870, 
and all will do her bidding. 

The Third Angei/s Message 
followed the first and second angels' messages; 
hence its chronology is over in the Milennial Age. 
We have seen that the final overthrow of Babylon 
does not take place till 1,260 years after the kingdom 
is "set up" in 1945. But the " dominion " of Baby- 
lon is withheld from her during the whole of her 
" double/ ' Co-extensive with her time of " double " 
a solemn warning goes forth against her false system 
of worship, threatening all who submit to her way 
of woiship with her " plagues " "in the presence of the 
Lamb/' We might conjecture as to what the great 
Babylon is in every phase of its existence, in the 
present Age and in the Age to come, but much of 
it might be mere speculation. We might also phi- 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 139 

losophise as to what the "mark" of the beast is, and 
be wrong in that also. Some say the mark is the 
observance of the Sunday sabbath instead of the 
Saturday sabbath. Some affirm that it is the " war 
tax." Others say it is the union of church and state. 
Others say it is the buying and selling of anything in 
commercial life without authority from the govern- 
ment. We are free to say we do not know what the 
"mark" is and do not care to speculate. The un- 
folding of subsequent events may make it all plain. 
We may safely say that the millions who are raised 
from the dead during the Messianic Reign will come 
forth with the same distorted ideas of the worship of 
the true God they had when they fell asleep in death. 
So it is reasonable that a message will go forth 
against the "beast," his "image," his "mark," and 
the "number of his name." The true light will then 
shine on all these features, as is made plain by the 
awful penalties visited on all who engage in such 
worship. They are to be tormented " with fire [not 
literal] and brimstone, in the presence of the holy 
angels and the Lamb." As the Lamb will not be 
present till after 1945, so the torment cannot take 
place till that time. 

Love Your Enemies. 
Why? God loved His. Christ loved His. You 
must love yours, if you would be God-like, Christ- 
like. "For if, while we were enemies, we were rec- 
onciled to God through the death of His Son, much 
more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His 
life. " (Rom. 5 :io.) How many were enemies when 



140 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

Christ died for us? All. Then how many were rec- 
onciled? AIL Then how many will be saved by 
His life? All, or none. Salvation is as far-reaching 
as reconciliation. "All we like sheep have gone 
astray; we have turned every one to his own way; 
and Jehovah hath laid on Him the iniquity of us 
all." (Isa. 53:6.) Sinner, saint, caviller, creed-maker. 
"Behold the Lamb of God, Who taketh away the 
[Adamic] sin of the world ' ' [and also the sins of the 
world during its Trial Ages (eons)]. (John 1 -.29.) The 
word " taketh' ' is a progressive term, showing that 
the sin of the world is not taken away all at once; 
but, as shown in the volume of this book, it requires 
"the Ages of the Ages " to accomplish the work, even 
to a thousand generations. The Lamb of God will 
take away the sin of all the world or no;ne. Jehovah 
put the sin of all the world on Christ, or else He 
put none. 

The Church, the Bride, the 144,000, the Lamb's 
wife, will be separated from sin during this present 
"evil world," but the unnumbered hosts of humanity 
in the Ages to come. The wheat and tares are to 
grow together till the " harvest " — the end of the 
Gospel Age; then the tares are to be bundled and 
burned — not literally, but symbolically. They are 
destroyed as tares, but not as individuals, are not 
blotted out of existence, or burned with fire and 
brimstone, to all eternity. The burning process, or 
fiery trial through which they will be called to pass, 
will change them from sinners to saints. 

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Jehovah's Finished Work. 141 

and power. He can and will deal with the sinner in 
such a way as to win his love and lead him to glory. 
The "eternal destruction" spoken of in 2 Thessah> 
nians 1 :g is a destruction of sin, and not sinners. 
When sin is destroyed in the individual, the sinner 
is destroyed also, but the sinner becomes a saint, 
saved from sin, with the powers of an endless life. 
The "age-lasting destruction' ' meted out to the sin- 
ner in the "Ages [eons] to come" will separate sin 
from the wicked and make saints of them. God's 
dealing with the sinner in the Ages to come will not 
be much unlike His dealing with the Church in this 
"present evil world." "Whom the I^ord loveth He 
chasteneth, and scourge th every son whom He re- 
ceiveth." Why does He deal with the Church in 
this way? To separate sin from the Church, and 
prepare it for the future work of blessing "all the 
families of the earth." "If ye [the Church] are 
without chastisement, whereof all axe partakers, 
then are ye bastards, and not sons." We are told 
that no chastisement for the present seems to be 
oyous , but rather grievous, but they yield the peace- 
able fruits of righteousness to them who are exer- 
cised thereby. It is not logical or Scriptural to af- 
firm that God's enemies are destroyed if they are 
tortured in fire and brimstone to all eternity. The 
longer they were tortured the worse they would hate 
God. No less are His enemies destroyed by blotting 
out of existence the individual. His enemies will be 
destroyed when His treatment of them, in wisdom, 
justice, compassion, mercy, and love, overcomes in 



142 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

their minds and hearts their hatred of Him. This is 
the way that, after His enemies have been reconciled 
to God through the death of His Son, they are saved 
by His life. 

Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:19: " God was in 
Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not reck- 
oning unto them their trespasses. ' ' ' ' Reconciling ' ' is 
" bringing into favor and friendship, after variance" 
(Webster). If the sinner is tortured with fire and 
brimstone for the Ages Eternal, does that restore 
him to " favor and friendship' ' with God? If the 
sinner is annihilated, is he not a dead enemy f Bear 
in mind that it was no fractional part of the world 
that was reconciled to God; no fractional part that 
was, prophetically speaking, brought back to favor 
and friendship with God "after variance/ ' It is not 
to be fully done till we come to the beginning of the 
Age without end. It is a progressive work carried 
on through Christ and the glorified Church through 
the Ages to come till the final glorification of the 
whole human race is accomplished. There is noth- 
ing in the word "reconciling" that even intimates 
that " variance" is to continue to exist between Je- 
hovah and any of His creatures "world without 
end." The finished work of Jehovah will yet reveal 
to a ransomed universe that the final goal of hu- 
manity in the undie-able (not able to die) condition, 
or immortality. "Gods like unto Him, even God." 
(Rom. 4:17.) "When we see Him, we shall be like 
Him; for we shall see Him as He is," not as He was 
while here in the flesh. The unmeasured life of 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 143 

Christ, Who reconciled the world to God through 
His death, and afterward saves it by His life, is the 
pledge, the guarantee, that the life of the whole race 
shall run parallel with His — on — and on — and on 
through the Great Boundless Unknown. 

A Parting Word. 
With much anxiety and earnest prayer, after 
many months of diligent research and digging as for 
hidden treasures, the authors of this little volume 
now dedicate it to God, to reach two classes of people 
especially, though thousands of people of all ranks 
and stations in life will read it and get a great bless- 
ing out of it. The two classes are typed by Elijah 
and Blisha, pointing to the "wise" and "foolish" 
virgins of Matthew 25. It will serve the purpose of 
enlightening, strengthening, confirming, and estab- 
lishing the "wise" virgins, the remnant Church, the 
"feet members," in the faith once delivered to the 
saints. Second, it will serve to enlighten, admonish, 
and even beseech, the " foolish " virgins to go and 
buy "oil," that they may be prepared to carry for- 
ward the "restitution" wqrk after the Church has 
been exalted to the Divme plane. We would remind 
them that before they are able to procure the "oil" 
(the Holy Spirit), the "wise" virgins will have 
passed on into glory ; for when they return with the 
"oil," they will find the door closed and the "wise" 
virgins gone. These "foolish" virgins then make a 
pathetic appeal to the Lord, saying: "Lord, Lord, 
open to us. " But He answered, and said : ' ' Verily I 
say unto you, I know you not." As Blisha received 



144 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

the Holy Spirit at the hands of Elijah, so will the 
" foolish' ' virgins receive the Holy Spirit at the hands 
of the "wise" virgins, after they are caught up to 
meet the Lord in the "air," preparatory to entering 
into kingdom honors at Jerusalem, September 20, 

1945. 

There is a thi,rd class, which, for lack of a bet- 
ter name, we call a "religious denomination" creed 
class, which this little book will not appeal to very 
strongly. Seeing their long-cherished theories being 
undermined, they will begin to shout: "Great is 
Diana of the EpheSians ! ' ' The love of ' ' lucre, ' ' the 
praise of men, the passion to be called " Rabbi," and 
much more, and (may I whisper it softly) g-r-a-f-t, 
may stand in the way of some. Of all "grafters," 
religious grafters are the most successful, for they 
run on the inside track; that is, they hold the confi- 
dence of the masses. Very many of this class are so 
filled up with prejudice that they will not investigate. 
They are bound with a "threefold cord" — ignor- 
ance, egotism, and self-conceit, all twisted firmly 
together, and not easily broken. Prejudice is like 
an empty bottle with a cork in it: you can't get 
anything into it, neither can you get anything out 
of it. 

There is yet another class, composed of all trades 
and occupations, who do not claim to be Christians, 
or even religious, who are of noble birth, honorable, 
upright in dealing, free from prejudice for the most 
part, who will readily read this little book, and be 
able to see in it a Bible solution of all life's in- 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 145 

tricate problems, in the unfolding of Jehovah's fin- 
ished work, " according to a plan of the Ages," 
" which He purposed in Himself" ; wherein it is re- 
vealed that "all the ends of the earth shall remember 
and turn unto Jehovah; and all the kindreds of the 
nations shall worship before Thee; for the kingdom 
is Jehovah's, and He is the Ruler over the nation" 
(Ps. 22:27-28). 

" And He [Jehovah] will destroy in this mountain 
[the kingdom appointed to Christ and the glorified 
Church] the face of the covering that covereth all 
peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. 
He hath swallowed up death for ever. And the 
Lord, Jehovah, will wipe away tears from off all 
faces; and the reproach of His people will He take 
away tears from off all the earth ; for Jehovah hath 
spoken it." (Isa. 25:7-9.) What a "feast of fat 
things" is in store for this old "groaning" world, 
which for about 6,000 years has soaked earth's 
mountains and valleys with its blood, and lined the 
rivers and oceans red with its life-currents! All 
these millions and billions of the race who have gone 
down into the charnel-house of death are to "come 
again from the land of the enemy ; and there is hope 
for thy latter end, saith Jehovah; and thy children 
shall come again to their own border" (Jer. 31 116-17). 
11 The veil that is spread over all nations " has indeed 
covered them with blindness to the natur&l rights 
of humanity and plunged them into a world-wide 
war, unparalleled in all the annals of time. This 
little volume furnishes a logical and Scriptural so- 



146 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

lution of the problem of evil, and the final outcome 
of the world's present and future tragedy. Our 
brave heroes and heroines, "over there" fighting for 
our lives, liberty, happiness, and homes, shall "come 
again [in the resurrection] to their own border." 

Oh, the boundless joy of that soon-coming 
New Kingdom Day, 

For which the Master taught His chosen 
to pray : 

Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done, 

By every 'nation neath the sun, 

As by the angels done. 

The Star of Bethlehem will soon appear again in 
the east. "Gleams of the golden morning" are 
streaming down over the wasting kingdoms of time. 
From Zion's watch-towers golden fingers of heavenly 
light are pointing to earth's New Day, when fathers 
and mothers, husbands and wives, sons and daugh- 
ters, brothers and sisters, children and loved ones, 
warriors and statesmen, presidents and law-makers, 
kings and queens, and parliaments, will meet again, 
under the new social and economic order of things, 
under ' ' the King of kings and Lord of lords. ' ' ' ' And 
Jehovah shall be King over all the earth in that 
day." (Zech. 14:9.) No pen can picture it. No 
brush can paint it. No imagination on loftiest wing 
can circumnavigate it. We will all be here on the 
earth when all these things come to pass, not up in 
Heaven. Saints do not "sleep in Jesus," up in 
Heaven. They "sleep in the dust of the earth." 
No graves up in Heaven; for saints do not need two 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 147 

sleeping-places, one in the earth and the other in 
Heaven. No dead people "over there/ ' God shall 
wipe away all tears from off all faces (not just saints 
only) , and there shall be no more sighing, no more 
crying, no more dying, no more death! Halleluiah! 
Worthy is the Lamb. 

The; Sign of Christ's Presence. 
What will be His sign? It will be the manifesta- 
tion and exercise of His great power (Rev. 11:15). 
The translation from among men of His elect to 
meet the dear Lord in the "air" (1 Thess. 4:17). 
The outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Blisha 
Class (the "foolish" virgin class), who will then re- 
ceive power from the Elijah Class to work mira- 
cles, great signs, and wonders, even as Elisha did (2 
Kings 2:24, 3:16, 4:33-34; 5:27; 6:6-18). The only 
reason why Elisha was not translated with Elijah 
was, that he was not anointed with the Holy Spirit. 
We note that Elisha asked for even a double portion 
of the Holy Spirit before Elijah was taken from him. 
The reason the antitypical Elishas will not be trans- 
lated with the Bride Class is, they are not anointed 
with the Holy Spirit. The sign of His presence will 
be the "times of refreshing," coming from His pres- 
ence, to Israel restored, as set forth in Acts 3:19. 
Regathered Israel to Jerusalem, the making of the 
New Covenant, the rebuilding of the grand Temple 
at Jerusalem, the new social order of things, a sound 
basis of all economic values, and a just and righteous 
law to enforce the good and put down the bad — 
these are but a few of the many signs of His presence 



148 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

that will appear among men, showing a new power is 
at the helm. 

Halleluiah! Worthy is the I^amb. "He who 
testifieth these things saith, Yea, I come quickly 
[September 20th, at 10 o'clock a. m., 1945]. The 
grace of the I^ord Jesus Christ be with you. My 
love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Anien" 



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Happy in Him. 
''If any one be in Christ, he is a new creation." 

— 2 Corinthians 5:17. 

(Old-time Tune: "How Tedious and Tasteless the 
Hour," p. 344, "Christ in Song.") 

1 At all times I 'm happy in Him, 

My life is a psalm and a song ; 
My view of His face ne'er grows dim, 

Though many things seem to go wrong. 
His presence my spirit doth cheer, 

His burden is easy to bear ; 
I ' ve nothing to dread or to fear 

While casting on Him all my care. 

2 Oh, precious experience this, 

More precious than worlds of pure gold ! 
Oh, glorious, heavenly bliss ! 

Oh, treasures of wealth all untold ! 
The joy of all joy is my lord's; 

His love, of all loves, is the best; 
No pen can describe His rewards, 

No brush paint His heavenly rest. 

3 On Zion's high mountain I stand, 

And heavenly hills robed in green 
Invite to that sweet Promised Land, 

But Jordan rolls darkly between. 
Like Moses, I long to cross o'er, 

And enter that Canaan of rest, 
But why should I ask of Him more? 

In Him I am happy and blest. 



150 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

4 In Him abounds fullness of joy, 

And pleasures are found evermore ; 
In Him naught can harm or annoy, 

In Him all to charm and adore. 
God's Son who came down from above, 

Revealing my Father's great plan, 
Embodies God's infinite love. 
Halleluiah! Amen and amen. 
By J. A. Oppy, Siloam Springs, Ark., November 
30, 1913. 

AlX ON THE Al/TAR. 

(Tune: Over the Line/' p. 9, " Christ in Song." 
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mira- 
cles of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, 
holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable 
service." — Romans 12:1. 

1 My body, my all, on the altar I lay, 

As a sweet "living sacrifice/ ' 
I gladly present it, while trusting I may 

Obtain that heavenly prize. 
Chorus. 
Living His life and dying His death, 
I will be faithful while He lends me breath; 
giving His life, I know I shall gain the crown of 

life eternal. 

2 'Tis only a "reasonable service" I bring, 

For Jesus to live and to die ; 
My "reward" I'll receive from the Heavenly 
King, 
In His Kingdom, by and by. 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 15 1 

3 And when this "earthly house' ' is " dissolved/ ' 

Which I for a crown have given, 
I've a "building of God," but "not made with 
hands, 
Eternal in the heavens." 

4 This mortal , when "changed," shall immortal be, 

And bright as the "sun" shall shine; 
And, "clothed" with His blest immortality, 
Shall bear His "image" Divine. 

5 My life glides along in sweet heavenly song, 

I belong to a "pilgrim" band; 
We've heard the "high" call, and we consecrate 
all 
To gain that heavenly land. 

6 Not the half did I know of this wonderful light, 

Of creatures in Christ made new. 
On wings I mount up, as the eagle ip. flight — 
Oh, yes, I do, I do! 

Final Chorus. 

Living His life, and living His death, 
We will be faithful while He lends us breath; 
Living His life, we know we shall gain the crown 
of life eternal. 

By J. A. Opi-y, Siloam Springs, Ark., December 
14, 1914. 



152 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

He Is Precious. 

" Since thou hast been precious in My sight, and 
honorable, and I have loved thee, therefore will I 
give men in thy stead, and peoples instead of thy 
life." — Isaiah 43:4. 

(Tune: "I Am Coming to the Cross," page 109, 
"Christ in Song." 

1 I am dearer unto Him 

Than "the apple of His eye," 
And as dear He is to me, 
And for Him 1 11 live and die. 

Chorus. 

I am "graven" on His hands, 

And upon His wounded side; 
He has written my "new name," 

For with Him I 'm crucified. 

2 From His head, hands, side, and feet, 

Saints behold a cleansing tide ; 
Washed in blood, they're made complete; 
Only saints can be His Bride. 

3 Oh, how precious is His name ! 

Oh, how precious is the flow 
Of the blood of Calvary's Lamb, 
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4 Oh, how lovely is the "Rose," 

And the Lily by its side ! 
Emblems of the Christ, Who chose 
Saints to be His lovely Bride. 

5 I have consecrated all — 

All my rights on earthly plane; 
I have heard the "heavenly call" 
For "a people for His name." 

6 "My Beloved" spake to me, 

Dove-like, resting on the "Rock" : 
"Let Me now thy countenance see, 
Thou art of My 'little flock.' 

7 "O my love, I've chosen thee, 

Thou art taken from My side; 
In My kingdom thou shalt be 

Crowned with glory — be My Bride." 

8 In the night He spake to me : 

"Rise up, love, and come away; 
See, the rolling shadows flee, 

Dawns the bright Millennial Day." 

9 Halleluiah! Praise His name ! 

I will praise Him and adore. 
Glory, glory to the Lamb ! 
I am His for evermore. 

By J. A. Oppy, Siloam Springs, Ark., February 
8, 1916. 



154 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

God's Wonderful Love. 

"Behold what manner of love the Father hath 
bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons 
of God." — i John 3:1. 

(Tune: "Nailed to the Cross," page 6, "Christ 

in Song.") 

1 I have wondered again and again, in my heart, 

Why the Lord ever called unto me; 
Why His love and His favor to me He'd impart, 
That a "joint heir" with Christ I might be. 

Chorus. 

It was love, wondrous love; it was love, wondrous 
love, 

And His throne He was willing to share, 
And to make me an heir, if His cross I would bear' 

And would suffer with Him unto death. 

2 Oh, most wonderful plan of my Father Divine, 

Which He "formed for the Anointed," His Son ! 
He should "ransont" from death all the race of 
mankind, 
Ere the Ages their journey should run. 

3 I will cling to the Anointed, Him I '11 never cteny, 

In His "footsteps" 111 walk all the way; 
For I see my "high calling, " for a crown, by 
and by, 
In a kingdom which knows no decay. 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 155 

4 I will sing of His justice, of His wisdom and power 

I will sing of His truth every day, 
Of His mercy and favor, every day, every hour, 
Till the shadows of night flee away. 

5 Soon "the mystery of God" shall be finished in 

earth, 
Soon the " voice of the archangel" rings; 
Soon the kingdoms of earth are the Kingdom 

of God, 
For the Lord He is King of all kings. 

6 Oh, " the day-star " of hope in my heart brightly 

shines, 
As the shadows 6i night float away, 
And "the god of this wdrld," who hath "blind- 
ed the minds," 
Will be bound through the great "Trial Day.", 
By J. A. Ofpy, Siloam Springs, Ark. 

My Heavenly Journey. 

"We are journeying urito the place of which Je- 
hovah said, I will give it you. Come thou with us, 
and we will do thee good; for Jehovah hath spoken 
good concerning Israel. " — Numbers 10:27. 

(Tune: "Heavenly Sunlight," page 159, "Pente- 
costal Song Evangel.") 

1 Journeying upward o'er the dark mountains, 
Beaten with storms, or covered with snow; 
Journeying downward through the dark valleys, 
Torn by the floods and tempests below; 



156 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

Chorus. 

I Ve a Companion, blessed Companion, 
Guiding my steps wherever I go; 

He will be with me, ever be with me, 
Till I shall end my journey below. 

2 Rocking along itpon the high billows, 

Plunging through troughs of the travailing sea, 
Dashing along beside the dark headlands, 
I've a dear Pilot, sailing with me. 

3 Marching along upon the hot desert, 

Facing the sand-storms gathering there, 
Often I hail the blessed "Oasis," 
"Presence" Divine, my burdens to bear. 

4 Walking with Jesus through the "dark valley/ ' 

Shadows of death can never prevail; 

Promise of crowns of life in His kingdom, 

Promise of life that never shall fail. 

5 Passing the "veil," I enter the Kingdom, 

Singing a song no mortal can know, 
"Song of the Lamb, " my blessed Redeemer, 
"Song of the Lamb," Who loved me so. 

By J. A. Oppy, Siloam Springs, Ark., January 
19, 1915. 



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Gethsemane. 

"And they came to a place which was named 
Gethsemane; and He saith unto His disciples, Sit 
ye here, while I pray." — Mark 14:32. 

(Tune: "OHve's Brow," page 156, 119, " Christ 

in Song.") 

1 'Twas midnight in Gethsemane, 
Where Jesus suffered most for me; 
Unheard by mortal ear, His prayer 
He offered to His Father there. 

2 'Twas midnight when my Father's Son 
Said: "foot my w#l, but Thine be done." 
'Twas midnight: Father heard His prayer, 
An angel sent to help Him there. 

3 'Twas midnight, and the great "I Am" 
Was sacrificing His dear Lamb. 
God's Lamb himself a "ransom" gave, 
That He the world might win and save. 

4 'Twas midnight, and from midnight thrones 
Was echoed back the Sufferer's grojans; 
Among the bright angelic trains, 

Not one could share His griefs and pains. 

5 'Twas midnight, and the Sufferer cries, 
For out of death He might not rise ; 
Should not His Father hear His prayer, 
He might remain for ever there. 



158 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

6 'Twas midnight, and in His distress 

He pleads the "cup" fttom Him might "pass"; 

Then in His agony He'd cry: 

" The world can't live except I die!" 

7 Earth's midnight gathered round His head 
When He unto His Father said : 

"My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" 
So died God's Lamb on Calvary. 

8 'Twas midnight: our Passover Lamb 
Is sacrificed f o!r sinful man ; 

And in that bright Millennial Day 
He '11 shine earth's midnights all away. 

9 'Twas midnight: Israel crossed Red Sea; 
Its antitype comes soon to me; 

And on that bright eternal shore 
No midnights come; no, nevermore. 

10 No midnights: Praise His Holy Name ! 
No midnights : Glory to the Lamb ! 
No midnights — sunshine evermore; 
No midnights on that golden shore. 

Passover Hymn. " They sang a hymn, and went 
out." 

By J. A. Oppy, Siloam Springs, Ark., March 
iii 1915- 



Jehovah's Finished Work. 159 

Pilot of Galilee. 

4 'And He awoke and rebuked the wind, and said 
unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, 
and there was a great calm." — Mark 4:39. 

(Tune: " Nearer, My God, to Thee," page 663, 
"Christ in Song.") 

1 Out on life's stormy sea 

My lot is cast; 
Hidden the sun from me, 

Fearful the blast. 
But I am trusting Thee, 
Pilot of Galilee; 
Thou hast the raging sea 

'Neath Thy control. 

2 Fearful the ocean's wrath 

Round my frail bark; 
While breakers talk with Death 

And all is dark. 
But I am trusting Thee, 
Pilot of Galilee, 
To calm the raging sea 

With "Peace, be still." 

3 Fearful the ocean's wake, 

Dreadful its roar ; 
And snow-capped billows break 
On rock-ribbed shore. 



160 Jehovah 9 s Finished Work. 

But I am trusting Thee, 
Pilot of Galilee; 
When all shall trust in Thee, 
All storms shall cease. 

By J. A. Oppy, Siloam Springs, Ark., April 21, 
1915. 

The; " Lm%E Flock" — The 144,000. 

"Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's 
good pleasure to give you the Kingdom." — Luke 
12:32. 

(Tune: "Beloved," page 226, "Hymns of Dawn.") 

1 ' ' Fear not, little flock ; " " for He careth for you " ; 

All the "gold" He will surely refine; 
He will "purge" out the "dross," and His like- 
ness renew, 
Till all bear His blest "image" Divine. 

2 Though cast in a furnace of "fire" you may be, 

He will treasure His laving design; 
He'll deliver from "fire" when the "gold" is 
set free, 
And we bear His blest "image" Divine. 

3 "Fear not, little flock;" for the Father will give 

" The Kingdom" of Glory to you; 
With Him you have suffered, with Him you shall 
live, 
Being "chosen," and "faithful," and "true." 



Jehovah 9 s Finished Work. 161 

4 'Tis the "Father's good pleasure" the Kingdom to 

give 
To His "chosen," His "true," and His "tried"; 
To those who have died, that His life they might 
live; 
With the Bridegroom, they'll reign as His 
BM'de. 

5 All praise to the Father, Who chose me in Christ ! 

All praise to the Father's dear Son! 
All praise for a place in the Kingdom of Rest ! 
All praise for a place in His throne! 

6 ' ' Blest are the dead who ' ' now ' ' die in the Lord ' ' ! 

Oh, " Yea, saith the Spirit,' ' they're blest! 
For, "changed in a moment," they gain their 
"reward," 
A home in the Kingdom of Rest. 

When the; Night Shau, Rou« Away. 
"And there shjall be no night there. " — Revelation 
22:5. 

( Tune : ' ' When the Mists Have Cleared Away, page 
893, "Christ in Song.") 
1 When the night has rolled in splendor 
From the beauty of the sky, 
And Jehovah's Plan and Purpse 

Is revealed in every eye ; 
When the darkness parts asunder 

And reveals that Kingdom Day, 
We shall know and love Him better 
As the night shall roll away. 



162 Jehovah's Finished Work. 

Chorus. 

To the saints is now made known, 
As they walk with Christ alone 

In His Messianic Kingdom, 
All the night He'll roll away; 

In His Messianic Kingdom, 
All the night He'll roll away. 

2 Now we grope in human blindness, 

And dishonor God above, 
And we make of Him a tyrant, 

When He is a God of love. 
Soon the misty creeds of churches 

Shall forever pass away, 
And well understand Him better 

In that glorious Kingdom Day. 

3 As above the mists we ' ve risen, 

How we love Him more and more ! 
And we praise Him for the pathway 

Leading to the Kingdom shore. 
With His snowy wings He'll cover, 

Through "the dark and cloudy day," 
Till the weary watch is over, 

And the night shall roll away. 

4 There's a radiant bow of promise 

Circling round the Father's throne, 
Shining for the overcomer; 

For the Master knows His own. 



Jehovah's Finished Work, 163 

He will never, never leave us, 
In this world of sin and care ; 

He will bear our heavy burdens 
Till we meet Christ "in the air." 

By J. A. Oppy, Siloam Springs, Ark., November 
27, 1915- 



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